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Christopher R. Martin

@chrismartin100

Christopher R. Martin is a professor of digital journalism at the University of Northern Iowa and a Center for Journalism and Liberty contributing scholar. He is author of “No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class” (Cornell University Press, 2019) as well as book on how labor unions are covered in the news media, “Framed! Labor and the Corporate Media” (Cornell University Press, 2004).

The Post Office Helped Save Our Elections. It Can Help Save Our Newspapers, Too

The Post Office Helped Save Our Elections. It Can Help Save Our Newspapers, Too

While I was writing this, I read that another newspaper closed in Iowa. It’s likely you never heard of it, but the La Porte City Progress Review was 127 years…
How Writing Off the Working Class Has Hurt the Mainstream Media

How Writing Off the Working Class Has Hurt the Mainstream Media

A 1951 Nieman Foundation conference on labor reporting tells us what we are missing in reporting today