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Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper

By Lindsey Moon,
Ben Kieffer
Published May 20, 2019 at 3:28 PM CDT
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Art Cullen holds up his Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing at the Storm Lake Times.
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Art Cullen holds up his Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing at the Storm Lake Times.
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Art Cullen stands in front of Little Storm Lake, a marsh that's been created to restore water quality.
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Art Cullen stands in front of Little Storm Lake, a marsh that's been created to restore water quality.
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John Cullen, Art's brother and founder of the Storm Lake Times.
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John Cullen, Art's brother and founder of the Storm Lake Times.
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  This program originally aired on 10-02-18.

Art Cullen's  commentary about water quality and agribusiness in Iowa won him the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 2017 .

During this hour of River to River, Cullen takes host Ben Kieffer on a tour of the Storm Lake Times newspaper offices as well as taking him through the city of Storm Lake itself. Cullen talks all about how he won the award, the founding of the paper, and his new book Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper.

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Lindsey Moon
Lindsey Moon served as IPR's Senior Digital Producer - Music and the Executive Producer of IPR Studio One's All Access program. Moon started as a talk show producer with Iowa Public Radio in May of 2014. She came to IPR by way of Illinois Public Media, an NPR/PBS dual licensee in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Wisconsin Public Radio, where she worked as a producer and a general assignment reporter.
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Ben Kieffer
Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River
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