Joe Sheller

As climate changes, so does weather news

By Joe Sheller | Guest Editorial One of the biggest stories of the next decade, in local media and everywhere else, will also be one of the oldest stories. As the old joke goes, everyone talks about the weather, but…

Graduation 2018: What has changed and what remains the same

By Joe Sheller / Media Columnist On May 20, one of my daughters passed an…

School walkouts are made-for-media events

By Joe Sheller / Media Column You couldn’t escape reminders of the 19th anniversary of…

Blum’s choice of metaphor goes too far

By Joe Sheller / Media Column For 50 years, American journalists have been a favorite…

Paywalls going up in the Corridor news scene

By Joe Sheller / Media Column “I would build a great wall, and nobody builds…

Donald Kaul and ‘Over the Coffee’

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column The year I graduated from Muscatine High School, 1976,…

KGAN offers window into Sinclair strategy

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column Back in July, comedian and media commenta­tor John Oliver…

KGAN offers window into Sinclair strategy

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column Back in July, comedian and media commenta­tor John Oliver…

How the blogosphere spawned a popular series

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column The 2017 Fall Faculty Series is underway at Mount…

ConnectCR faces PR challenge of anti-biker bias

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column With any luck, by the time you read this,…

Blum walkout echoes GOP media strategy

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column Ever since KCRG TV-9 was sold by The Gazette…

Blum walkout echoes GOP media strategy

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column Ever since KCRG TV-9 was sold by The Gazette…

Straight talk from Storm Lake wins Pulitzer Prize

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column In a quick check of the Pulitzer Prize website,…

The little news show that could still chugging

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column This month marks the anniversary of one of the…

Dedicated writers are the true face of journalism

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column Where is the best, public-service oriented journalism available where…

Will 2017 be the year of the tweet?

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column Donald J. Trump is our first commander-in-chief who extensively…