Iowa newspaper editor reflects on what it's like to be a rural Black journalist in today's political climate - Entrepreneur Generations

Rushing looks over a new edition of the paper.
(Photo by Caroline Cummings)

What's it like for a Black journalist from Kansas City to move to rural Iowa for a newspaper job? Ty Rushing, managing editor of The N'West Iowa Review in Sheldon, joked that he didn't unpack his bags for months when he moved to rural Iowa over seven years ago. After a few stints at area newspapers, he's now in Sheldon, a largely white community of over 5,000 in northwestern Iowa, Caroline Cummings reports for KTVO.

"Being a Black journalist at this moment—when there’s a collective reckoning over the killings of black people at the hands of police and the systemic racism that allows for it—is not lost on him. He has covered protests over George Floyd's death in his community and those around it in Northwest Iowa," Cummings reports. 

Rushing says he has experienced racism, both in Iowa and elsewhere, but said most of his encounters in rural Iowa are positive and he's glad to have frank conversations about race. 

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