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"A reminder that even the smallest newspapers can hold the most powerful among us accountable."—The New York Times Book Review
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In Storm Lake, published in 2018, Pulitzer-winning editor, publisher, and author Art Cullen writes with passion, insight and humor about immigration, family, community and the history and future of this part of Iowa – and, to an extent, much of America.
His family’s newspaper, the Storm Lake Times Pilot, serves as a model for local coverage and investigative reporting in an era when hedge funds and out-of-town chains have left many parts of the country without newspapers or with “ghost papers,” shells of their former selves.
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