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What to Watch Monday: Award-winning documentary shows small-town newspaper’s fight

PBS has the TV premiere of the award-winning documentary "Storm Lake," which follows Art Cullen’s fight serve his Iowan farming community through his family’s newspaper, The Storm Lake Times.
PBS has the TV premiere of the award-winning documentary "Storm Lake," which follows Art Cullen’s fight serve his Iowan farming community through his family’s newspaper, The Storm Lake Times. PBS POV STORM LAKE

Storm Lake (10 p.m., PBS NC) - This is the television premiere of the award-winning POV documentary about Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Art Cullen and his family, and their fight to unite and inform their Iowan farming community through their biweekly newspaper, The Storm Lake Times — even as the paper hangs on by a thread. Twice a week, they work as civic watchdogs to protect their hometown and the legacy of credible journalism, all on a shoestring budget for 3,000 readers. Directed by Beth Levison and Jerry Risius.

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Brooke Cain is a North Carolina native who has worked at The News & Observer and McClatchy for more than 30 years as a researcher, reporter and media writer. She is the National Service Journalism Editor for McClatchy. 
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