The Newsroom - Off the Record
Ekstra Bladet is going through the worst crisis in the newspaper's one hundred years of publishing. The world of print media is threatened by the financial crisis, and as circulation figures fall and media economies falter, this Danish tabloid is no exception. Readers have gone online, and no one has yet to figure out how to capitalize on internet-based news. Every day, Denmark's old watchdog, Ekstra Bladet, competes with other newspapers for readers and stories. The battle is fierce, and in the end only the strongest will survive.
As the daughter of an editor-in-chief, Mikala Krogh was weaned on newspaper copy. She, however, chose a different path for herself, and graduated from the National Film School of Denmark as a documentary film director in 2001. Central to Krogh’s filmography is her constant exploration of existential dilemmas and her ability to seek out her stories among the many interesting fates of real life.