Professor David Peters was interviewed by Radio Iowa for the article "Research finds big drop in service club membership in Iowa towns." The article details findings from the Iowa Small Town Poll, which found declining membership in fraternal organizations. Peters said "When we compare 1994 to our latest data, which was last year, we see that membership in fraternal organizations---these would be groups like the Kiwanis Club, the Lions Club, Optimists, Rotary, Moose Club…Masons and the Odd Fellows, we found that membership over the last 30 years has fallen by over two-thirds."

Professor Chad Hart spoke with WKRN News 2 about concerns over egg prices due to avian influenza. In the article "Concerns surrounding rising egg prices spark after suspected case of bird flu in West Tennessee" Hart told WKRN that "When you think back over the past two years with avian influenza, we’ve lost over 100 million birds. That means there’s been a lot of birds and a lot of eggs that have not been able to go to market because of avian influenza, and it’s definitely led to the much higher prices we see for eggs today than, say, last year, even two years ago." This story is also featured on MSN.

Hart also spoke to VOA News about egg prices and avian influenza for the story "Eggs are available but pricier as the holiday baking season begins." In that story, Hart told VOA "It's really hard to control that interaction between domesticated birds and wild birds. Some of those vectors have been opened up because we're asking the egg industry to produce in ways that we didn't ask them to before." Hart's interview was also featured in Aljazeera.

Professor Hart was also interviewed by We Are Iowa about local business owners' concerns over President-elect Trump's proposed tariffs. In the story "Iowa small businesses worry about Trump’s proposed tariffs," Hart said "How much of that 25% do [business owners] pass on to consumers, or how much do they try to absorb? That's going to be sort of another wild card here." This story was also featured on WQAD 8.