In the heat of the pandemic, Crowder and Kremer, an Emmy-winning Register photo editor, got together and talked about doing a documentary about their newspaper’s ride, a weeklong trek from
Directed by Courtney Crowder and Kelsey Kremer, the Des Moines Register documentary focuses on a handful of people who have embraced the ride and emerged richer for it.
While it’s much shorter than a day on RAGBRAI (it’s less than an hour), “Shift” offers a slice of goodness to those who may have misjudged the Iowa tradition. It’s
Twenty one years ago, Chuck Offenburger and I had ringside seats for a rare and fascinating journalistic forum: the now late George “Lefty” Mills, the legendary Des Moines Register reporter, the late Bob Beck, the former publisher of Centerville’s Daily Iowegian, a towering figure in journalism and