Storm Lake
1 HOUR 25 MINS
Documentary
A family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm them.
Cast & Crew
Jill Biden Self
Pete Buttigieg Self
Chuck Grassley Self
Amy Klobuchar Self
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Self
Bernie Sanders Self
Elizabeth Warren Self
Beth Levison Director
Jerry Risius Director
Beth Levison Producer
Katy Drake Bettner Executive Producer
Sam Bisbee Executive Producer
Pamela Tanner Boll Executive Producer
Sally Jo Fifer Executive Producer
Lois Vossen Executive Producer
Megan Gelstein Executive Producer
Jamie Wolf Executive Producer
Jerry Risius Cinematography
Rachel Shuman Film Editing
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Matt Roush says...
Having started my career at a local newspaper, I can empathize with this Independent Lens documentary, which chronicles the struggle for survival of small-town local papers suffering circulation and advertising losses, with nearly 2,000 papers having gone dark over the last 20 years. This case study profiles Iowa’s biweekly Storm Lake Times and its 63-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Art Cullen, whose family comprises half of the staff, servicing an agricultural community hit hard by the pandemic in 2020.
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