Former Des Moines Register stand-out Kristen Scharnberg Hampton, an Iowa native, has penned a piece for The Columbia Journalism Review about The Atlantic piece University of Iowa professor Stephen Bloom wrote.
A native Iowan defends Iowa
December 17, 2011 by
About O.Kay HendersonO. Kay Henderson is the news director of Radio Iowa.
Kay is a founding member of the Radio Iowa network newsroom. In 1994, she became the network’s news director. She’s a featured reporter and commentator on Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press,” and the 2002 recipient of the Shelley Award.
Here’s our show about Bloom’s article:
“Yale talks with four native Iowans about the depiction of them and the state they call home in Stephen Bloom’s scathing and controversial article in The Atlantic Monthly, his motives for publishing it, the response its generated across the state, and its national implications with regards to Iowa’s first in the nation voting status.”
http://patv.tv/blog/2011/12/18/talking-with-stephen-blooms-observations-oniowa/