Tag: media
How the blogosphere spawned a popular series
By Joe Sheller / Guest Column
The 2017 Fall Faculty Series is underway at Mount Mercy University, and it has generated local media buzz. There...
ConnectCR faces PR challenge of anti-biker bias
By Joe Sheller / Guest Column
With any luck, by the time you read this, I will have crossed the state of Iowa by bicycle.
For...
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...
Looking back at local media changes in 2016
By Joe Sheller / Guest Column
You have to be an Iowa fan, I think, to appreciate “I on the Hawks.” Personally, it’s not for...
Pokémon game fad blurs fantasy, reality
By Joe Sheller / Guest Column
In the weeks before RAGBRAI my training bicycle rides, especially in the late afternoons in downtown Cedar Rapids, began...
Checking the facts of fact checkers
By Joe Sheller / Guest Column
A local media birthday of note is coming up in July.
On The Gazette’s web site, the first “Gazette Fact...
Blogs spotlight alternative voices in Corridor
By Joe Sheller/Guest Column
Do you blog or follow any blogs?
A feature of the media landscape for the past 20 years, the online web log...
Political polls show only snapshot of race
By Joe Sheller / Guest Column
In the final days before the Iowa Caucuses on Feb. 1, expect more headlines like this: “Sanders overtakes Clinton...
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...