Beth Levinson

Art Cullen made a name for himself and the Storm Lake Times when he won a 2017 Pulitzer Prize for exposing dark money among local county officials involved in corporate agriculture.Sadly, a stat shown during the doc reveals that one in four newspapers have shut down over the last 15 years in the U.S. More and more in a time when some news outlets engage in spreading harmful lies, we need such homespun honesty in order to simply survive these days. When a newspaper is local in scope, it lives and breathes along with its customers and has a duty to serve them.