Christopher R. Martin

About Christopher R. Martin

Christopher R. Martin is a professor of digital journalism at the University of Northern Iowa and a Center for Journalism and Liberty contributing scholar. He is author of “No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class” (Cornell University Press, 2019) as well as book on how labor unions are covered in the news media, ““Framed! Labor and the Corporate Media” (Cornell University Press, 2004).

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The Post Office Helped Save Our Elections. It Can Help Save Our Newspapers, Too

By Christopher R. Martin• Opinion• January 5, 2021

While I was writing this, I read that another newspaper closed in Iowa. It’s likely you never heard of it, but the La Porte City Progress Review was 127 years old. You might have heard of The … Read more

How Writing Off the Working Class Has Hurt the Mainstream Media

By Christopher R. Martin• August 27, 2019

This essay is adapted from Christopher R. Martin’s 2019 book, “No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class” (Cornell University Press). In June 1951, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard held a two-day conference for … Read more