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Views of the News: Dissing Iowa, "Lie of the Year," Whose Top Stories?

KBIA | By Mike McKean
Published January 4, 2012 at 10:14 AM CST

Iowa: Too white, too evangelical, too rural?

Stephen G. Bloom, The Atlantic: "Observations From 20 Years of Iowa Life"


Stephen Berry, Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Frank Durham and Judy Polumbaum, Cedar Falls Patch: "Guest Opinion: Bloom Controversial Piece on Iowa Gets "F" From University Colleagues"

Gail Collins, The New York Times: "Feel Free to Ignore Iowa"

David Folkenflik, NPR: "Iowa Race Fit Many Convenient Story Lines For Media"

Jack Gillum, Associated Press: "Super PACs Ready to Unleash Beyond Iowa Caucus 2012"

Brian Stelter, The New York Times: "Tight Race Catches TV Anchors by Surprise"

Cory Bergman, Lost Remote: "TV news showcases social media for Iowa Caucus"

"Lie of the Year"

Bill Adair, PolitiFact.com: "Fact-checking in the Echo Chamber Nation"

Ezra Klein, The Washington Post: "The problem for the fact checkers"

Mark Hemingway, The Weekly Standard: "Lies, Damned Lies, and 'Fact Checking'"

2011 Top Stories = What in 2012?

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: "2011: A Year of Big Stories Both Foreign and Domestic"

Associated Press: "Top 10 news stories of 2011"

Associated Press: "Joplin tornado tops 2011 Missouri stories"

Columbia Daily Tribune: "The Tribune's staff takes a look at what made news in 2011"

BJ Worley and Kelly Moffitt, Columbia Missourian: "Cicadas lead list of Columbia Missourian.com's top stories in 2011"

Linda Holmes, NPR: "The 20 Unhappiest People You Meet In the Comments Sections of Year-End Lists"
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Mike McKean
MIKE MCKEAN directs the Futures Lab, the experimental newsroom and technology testing center of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. He founded the School's Convergence Journalism program and serves on the MU Information Technology Committee. McKean is a leader in the School's partnerships with Apple, Inc., and Adobe Systems to transform journalism education through pervasive computing. He is a frequent trainer and guest lecturer at top media companies and universities in China, has helped establish convergence journalism programs at Shantou University and Moscow State University, and has conducted Internet workshops in the United States, the Russian Federation and Albania. McKean has been honored with the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching and the MU Faculty-Alumni Award. He earned a bachelor's degree at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1979 and a master of arts in political science from Rice University in 1985. McKean has served on the J-School faculty since 1986.
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