IowaWatch, the nonprofit news organization that is part of The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, is teaming up with the nonprofit Iowa City movie theater, Filmscene, to show the documentary film “Dark Money” on Sunday, Nov. 4.
The weekly public affairs program, Ethical Perspectives on the News, dug into how the news media function in American society, particularly in this era when reporters are under heavy criticism for the work they do, and how they do it.
Four registered hate groups were listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map as operating from Iowa in late July 2018. They are called the Daily Stormer, Gallows Tree
The eight candidates for four contested Johnson County, Iowa, seats in the Iowa General Assembly have been invited to participate in a candidates forum on Monday, Sept. 10, at 2 pm at the Coralville Public Library. Lyle Muller, of IowaWatch, will moderate the forum, which will be sponsored by the Jo
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch has received two significant grants for general operating expenses, with a matching challenge attached to one.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Stephen J. Berry, whose push for journalists to work thoroughly and ethically led him to co-found the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch, will be the annual Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet’s guest speaker in Des Moine
IowaWatch and the Science in the Media project seek six journalism fellows who have story ideas they’d like to pursue while being paid. We will help these fellows produce in-depth, science-related investigative journalism projects that can be published or broadcast by multiple news organizations in
You have questions about the IowaWatch Science in the Media Fellowships. Here are some quick answers.
Q: When should we have to apply?
A: Immediately. Grants are available until the
If you think digging up interviews and finding information for an in-depth news story is easy, listen to IowaWatch summer 2018 reporting interns Lily Bohlke and Matthew McDermott. This podcast takes you behind the scenes for a revealing look at what journalism training at the Iowa Center for Public
Former Iowa Gov. Robert Ray died July 8 at the age of 89. Ray, a Republican, was respected by people in his party and Democrats because of his bipartisan approach
The IowaWatch Connection radio program collected eight awards for large market radio reporting during 2017 at the annual Iowa Broadcast News Association convention in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, April 21.
Read what Columbia Journalism Review had to say in an April 3, 2018, article about IowaWatch's work with high school journalists. "Iowa high schoolers power statewide investigations" by Micah Fields.
