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Max Walker

  • Communications Manager, Trinity Cathedral
Cedar Rapids
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Communications Manager for @AZCathedral. Wednesday night DM for @BKAdventuers. Previously: @ABC15, @KCRG, @gazettedotcom, @KOMUnews.

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Max Walker’s Biography

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Born and raised in Arizona. Third generation Missouri Tiger, though first from the J-School. I moved to Iowa for my first job as a morning show producer at KCRG-TV9, the ABC affiliate in Cedar Rapids.

While there I had the fortune of working with some incredibly talented anchors, reporters, photojournalists and production staff. There's nothing quite like dealing with major breaking local or national news and only having a skeleton crew to track it down.

While on the morning show, we were nomin…

Max Walker’s Journalist Portfolio

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Second resentencing ordered for man who pleaded to shooting Dubuque police officer

Second resentencing ordered for man who pleaded to shooting Dubuque police officer

DUBUQUE, Iowa - The sentence for a man who pleaded guilty to charges of robbing a bar and shooting a Dubuque …

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Illinois Attorney General's Office investigating East Dubuque superintendent's leave

Illinois Attorney General's Office investigating East Dubuque superintendent's leave

I'm really proud of this story, as our reporter worked hard to get the documents, but wasn't sure how to writ…

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Authorities continuing search for AMBER ALERT victim, suspect

Authorities continuing search for AMBER ALERT victim, suspect

I was quite happy of the digital presentation of this story, with our reporter's TV version up top, and then …

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Joni Ernst proposes veteran's mental health bill in first Senate speech

Joni Ernst proposes veteran's mental health bill in first Senate speech

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Iowa's junior Senator has put her first entry into the Congressional Record behind her. Jo…

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Three people in custody, charged after Coralville bank robbery

Three people in custody, charged after Coralville bank robbery

CORALVILLE - Coralville police said three people are in custody after a morning bank robbery took place in fr…

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Elections: No on College Community bond, Midland measures approved

Elections: No on College Community bond, Midland measures approved

CEDAR RAPIDS - Voters in several school districts went to the polls with various funding measures on the ball…

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Articles

Mare Island Brewing Co. Cans Pista Pilsner for the First Time, Celebrating 40 Years of Vallejo Pista Sa Nayon

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By Max Walker
| EIN News
Mare Island Brewing Co. will host an Artist Showcase & Label Unveiling featuring Niki Toney on May 20 at 6:00 PM. The public is invited to attend. Collaboration with Vallejo Pista Sa Nayon and local Fil-Am artist Niki Toney brings a longtime festival favorite into cans for the first time.
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Rich Spirit Acquires North American Rights to Sundance Road Trip Dramedy ‘Hot Water’

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By Josh Peters, Dale Dickey, Max Walker
| starsalert.com
Rich Spirit has acquired North American rights to Ramzi Bashour’s debut feature “Hot Water.” A theatrical release is being planned for later this year.The film, which stars Lubna Azabal, Daniel Zolghadri and Dale Dickey, is described as “a mother-son road dramedy that explores ideas about family, home and belonging through a diasporic lens,” according to the official synopsis.
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A Heaven Reflected on Earth: The Golden Temple, Amritsar

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By Max Walker
| Public Books
I had been overambitious, as young journalists are. But I had also underestimated India, as the British tend to do. Sitting on the corner of the bed in my filthy hotel in Delhi, I abandoned my well-intentioned, well-funded reportage on an approved and well-reported subject, sufficiently relevant to Western audiences, and booked a flight to the city of Amritsar, in the Punjab. Amritsar’s Sri Harmandir Sahib, or “Golden Temple,” remains undulled by a tumultuous past.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

A local TV morning show reporter.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I used an IBM Selectric once. Does that count?

How is social media changing news?

It has already changed how major news organizations report, present & distribute. Pro: instantaneous coverage. Con: clickbait headlines.