Tag: KCRG
Picture this: Compelling local media images
By Joe Coffey / The Fifth Estate
Corridor media outlets, please figure out how to put engaging, fitting, real images on the stories you produce.
At...
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 walkout echoes GOP media strategy
By Joe Sheller / Guest Column
Ever since KCRG TV-9 was sold by The Gazette Co. to Gray Television in 2015, the look and feel...
Blum walkout echoes GOP media strategy
By Joe Sheller / Guest Column
Ever since KCRG TV-9 was sold by The Gazette Co. to Gray Television in 2015, the look and feel...
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...
The Gazette Company sells KCRG to Gray Television
By Dave DeWitte
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KCRG-TV9, the Cedar Rapids-based ABC affiliate that has been part of The Gazette Company since it went on the air in 1953,...
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...
How well do you know your news outlets?
Joe Coffey / The Fifth Estate
The research phase of many a local news story involves a reporter checking out a company’s website to get...