Tag: Mount Mercy University
Nate Klein
Age: 32
Occupation: Assistant Professor, Mount Mercy University
What’s the best advice you ever received?
That it is better to be a thermostat in life, not a...
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...
Student media creates future success
By Joe Sheller / Guest Column
The New York Times coverage of the Super Tuesday election contests March 1 in many states included a report...
How we remember(ed) Vietnam
By Joe Sheller / Guest Editorial
I had planned to write this month about echoes of the protests at the University of Missouri, and how...
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...
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...