Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.
A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
Not everyone reacted to the recent changes at the Cedar Rapids Gazette as skeptically as I did.
One prominent ‘metajournalism’ blog, sponsored by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard, has only good things to say about the newspaper uber-modern, polydextrous news machine and its newly minted ‘Information Content Conductor.’
As journalist Martin Langeveld writes:
In effect, Buttry’s content unit will be an online-only news entity just like the new Seattle P-I, MinnPost, Voice of San Diego, and others, but with this difference: it will be part of a forward-thinking organization in which content can be remixed and republished in multiple ways to reach audiences through traditional print products, niche publications, multiple web sites and social networks. This is a news startup to add to your watch list.
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