The Future of Local News • From Northeastern University’s School of Journalism
‘Storm Lake’ from PBS tells the story of a rural newspaper fighting for its life
Dolores Cullen, photographer and feature writer, holds up a copy of The Storm Lake Times
By Dan Kennedy
Dolores Cullen is scanning through photos she’d taken at a local elementary school where Abby Bean, the reigning Iowa Pork Producers Pork Queen, had enthused over the finer points of hog production. The kids were encouraged to oink. There was a piglet wearing a diaper. It was the sort of event that oozes cute.
I am a professor of journalism at Northeastern University specializing in the future of local journalism at whatworks.news. My blog, Media Nation, is online at dankennedy.net.
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