A family run Iowa newspaper gets the spotlight

One day, when they knew they’d be filming late, Beth Levison and Jerry Risius told their film crew to hang around the hotel for the morning while the two directors headed into the Storm Lake (Iowa) Times. They figured not much would be happening.

Instead, the two scrambled to capture a busy news day at a small, family-owned newspaper, while the staff of the Storm Lake Times covered a serious traffic accident, an invasion of zebra mussels and the story of a local resident who was a big hit on a Spanish language television show.

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