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Local media habits

Remember when local media preferences were passed down from generation to generation? Maybe your morning Gazette habit is because it was always there on the kitchen table when you grew up. Or perhaps you watch KCRG at 10 p.m., and…

The price of reliable journalism

The price of reliable journalism

Iowa media unify in free press message

By Joe Sheller / Media Column This month more than 300 newspapers across America opined…

Democracy needs a free press

By the CBJ Editorial Board Journalism has never been an easy or popular pursuit, but…

Media unleashes flood of 2008 memories

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column Has it really been 10 years? I recall how…

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…

Looking back at local media changes in 2016

By Joe Sheller / Guest Column You have to be an Iowa fan, I think,…