Tag: Joe Sheller
Gazette and Gray gamble on future of TV
By Joe Sheller / Guest Editorial
Welcome to America, Cedar Rapids. This is a country where, typically, regional and national corporations own our media.
While that’s...
Sensations of seeing yourself in the news
By Joe Sheller / Guest Editorial
On Aug. 18, my photograph was on the front page of the Gazette.
I’ll forgive you if you missed it....
In new media era, who feeds the watchdog?
by Joe Sheller / Guest Editorial
Nonprofit news media are going to become increasingly important in the years ahead.
In the past, news media in America...
The media’s role in cultural change
By Joe Sheller / Guest Editorial
Great shifts in our culture are, I think, a bit like plate tectonics. Hidden under the surface, energy builds...
Knocking down the Iowa Straw Poll
By Joe Sheller / Guest Editorial
You might have missed it, but there was recently a national election in the United Kingdom. In the U.K.,...
Social media and our view of Baltimore
By Joe Sheller / Guest Editorial
This Mother’s Day weekend, America had a new super mom to celebrate – a woman whose fame was fueled...
Exploring four walls of freedom
By Joe Sheller / Guest Editorial
In March, my wife and I visited Washington, D.C. While there, I experienced a few hours at the Newseum,...
Television’s 50 shades of pay
By Joe Sheller / Guest Editorial
British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke had a daydream in the 1940s. What if artificial satellites were placed...