Tag: media
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...
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...