Local News, Politics, Rural America, and the 2020 Campaign With Doug Burns Journalists Are My Heroes

Our latest guest is dedicated veteran journalist Doug Burns, co-owner and editor of a family newspaper that has delivered quality local news for nearly a century. With the Carroll Times Herald and affiliated newspapers in western Iowa, Burns manages to cover everything from colorful local characters to feisty national politics. (He even has his own interviews and issues podcast on Anchor, Iowa Political Mercury.) This conversation ranges all over the media landscape: the challenges facing modern community newspapers; Burns' new digital media marketing firm intended to claw back a little revenue from Facebook and Google; his nasty recent libel lawsuit; how to revive rural Main streets in the Amazon era; the enduring controversies around Iowa Rep. Steve King; the 2020 Iowa caucuses and presidential campaign; and many more topics. As always, thanks for listening. And please subscribe to and support the sources of local news that you rely on.


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