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Host/Producer: Amy Browne There will be a free showing of the 2023 documentary “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink” tonight at the Grand in Ellsworth, sponsored by The Maine Monitor and The Ellsworth American.  WERU’s General Manager Matt Murphy interviewed filmmaker Rick Goldsmith, along with Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, Executive Director at the Maine Monitor earlier this week, and he joins us today to talk about the film. FMI: www.grandonline.org/upcoming-events www.themainemonitor.org About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for