It’s telling that so many incisive, vital documentaries on journalism and media have been produced in the past half-dozen years. The Fourth Estate is under attack on many fronts, from the deleterious effects of social media to conspiracy-theory-mongers on the left and right.

Beth Howard used pie to work through grief. Now she's sharing its healing power in a new documentary, "Pieowa."

A sheriff serving life. A coroner caught stealing. In St. Tammany Parish, the truth was stranger — and darker — than fiction.