Tag: 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...
Debates help Iowa voters see beyond attack ads
By Joe Sheller / Media Column
I am a fan of election year political debates — not because they are all that entertaining, but because...
Five trends reshaping politics & media in 2018
By Joe Sheller / Media Column
A half-page advertisement appeared in the Sept. 13 edition of the Mount Mercy University student newspaper, The Times. It...
Iowa media unify in free press message
By Joe Sheller / Media Column
This month more than 300 newspapers across America opined on the same point, taking President Donald Trump to task...
Media unleashes flood of 2008 memories
By Joe Sheller / Guest Column
Has it really been 10 years?
I recall how eerie downtown Cedar Rapids was just days before the Cedar River...
Graduation 2018: What has changed and what remains the same
By Joe Sheller / Media Columnist
On May 20, one of my daughters passed an important personal milestone, receiving her nursing pin in a ceremony...
School walkouts are made-for-media events
By Joe Sheller / Media Column
You couldn’t escape reminders of the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings in the local news media...
Blum’s choice of metaphor goes too far
By Joe Sheller / Media Column
For 50 years, American journalists have been a favorite punching bag of Republicans. And that is fair – being...
Paywalls going up in the Corridor news scene
By Joe Sheller / Media Column
“I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me.”
- Donald Trump, June 2015
Fast...
Donald Kaul and ‘Over the Coffee’
By Joe Sheller / Guest Column
The year I graduated from Muscatine High School, 1976, a Des Moines journalist had purchased a lemon of a...