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Jack Abraham Newfield was an American journalist, columnist, author, documentary filmmaker and activist. Newfield wrote for the Village Voice, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Sun, New York Magazine, Parade Magazine, Tikkun, Mother Jones, and The Nation and monthly columns for several labor union newspapers. In his autobiography, Somebody's Gotta Tell It: The Upbeat Memoir of a Working-Class Journalist (2002), Newfield said, "The point is not to confuse objectivity with truth."
Birth Name
Jack Abraham Newfield
Born
Friday, 18 February 1938
Died
Monday, 20 December 2004
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune | Friend / Journalist | 2011 |
| Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Self | 2005 |
| Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story | Self | 2005 |
| Bud Greenspan's Reflections | Himself | 2004 |
| Happy Hour | Jack Newfeld | 2003 |
| ESPN SportsCentury | Self | 1999 |
| Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion | Self | 1998 |
| Don King: Only in America | Reporter in Zaire | 1997 |
| Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X | Self | 1995 |
| American Experience | Self - Writer | 1988 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune | Friend / Journalist | 2011 |
| Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Self | 2005 |
| Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story | Self | 2005 |
| Bud Greenspan's Reflections | Himself | 2004 |
| Happy Hour | Jack Newfeld | 2003 |
| ESPN SportsCentury | Self | 1999 |
| Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion | Self | 1998 |
| Don King: Only in America | Reporter in Zaire | 1997 |
| Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X | Self | 1995 |
| American Experience | Self - Writer | 1988 |
| Dispatches | Self - Reporter | 1987 |
| Frontline | Himself - Reporter | 1983 |
| HBO Boxing | Self - Audience Member | 1973 |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Himself / Himself - Guest | 1962 |
