Rekha and Julie
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This is Julie Gammack with some terrific news.
will be writing regularly in her Substack column: Rekha shouts and whispers.
We are so moved by the support many of you extended during our podcast experiment, “What the Hell Happened to Iowa?” we want to invite you to join us both in our independent columns.
If you like podcasts and are not already a subscriber, please join my subscriber list (free). I invite newsmakers and exciting folks to join in a one-hour, free-wheeling discussion, where readers are invited to participate in the conversation. Those calls are then uploaded into a podcast. Here is a recent episode featuring provocateur, conservationist, Liz Garst:
My guest on Monday is . Subscribers are invited to join the call at noon central time. The link to the call is below.
Mark was a daily newspaper editor for four decades, most recently at the Chicago Tribune, where he was metro editor in charge of the largest department in the biggest newsroom in the Midwest. Mark writes the Stop the Presses free weekly newsletter, which examines media and politics. He is the co-author of 10 books, including the upcoming Everybody Needs an Editor, a writing guide in which he served as editor, and Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports, a biography of the Harlem Globetrotters founder that he wrote with his brother Matthew. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Rekha has also joined the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative, and her column will be featured on Sunday mornings. There are now 60 members of the collaborative, all of whom are professional writers interested in the state. If you do not already subscribe, you’ll enjoy the smorgasbord of offerings, from political commentary to humor and columns about cars.
Rekha will also be an occasional panelist on the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative Politics Panel, a podcast featuring several political analysts who will be offering their insights into the 2024 election in Iowa.
Below is the first episode recorded last week:
We loved doing this podcast; however, it proved far more daunting to manage with two busy schedules and the complexity of editing technology. Plus, the answer to the question - what the hell happened to Iowa? - remains elusive.
We’ll continue seeking the answer to that question in these formats.
Join us!