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Nik Heftman, Emmy-winning journalist and filmmaker, produced for CBS Mornings before founding The Seven Times, a mission-driven video and event production company. His debut film "The Negro Artist" is screening nationwide, streaming late 2026.
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Fourth-generation Iowa journalist dives deep with unpredictable, well-reported writing on rural America's people, politics and culture.