Rape in the Fields, a June 2013 investigative documentary for PBS’s FRONTLINE program about the hidden reality of rape on the job for undocumented women in America’s farms, fields and factories, has received the 2014 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast and digital news.
IowaWatch reporters Katie Kuntz and Lauren Mills assisted with some video and reporting in Iowa for the yearlong, cross-platform investigation led by noted journalist Lowell Bergman.
Lauren Mills
The documentary was produced by three partners: Bergman’s Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the Center for Investigative Reporting and the television network Univision. Univision aired a Spanish-language version of the documentary after FRONTLINE’s English-language broadcast on PBS.
Katie Kuntz
You may view Rape in the Fields for free at this link.
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IowaWatch is the Iowa news partner for a cross-country tour by HuffPost that will stop in Des Moines, Iowa on Oct. 9, 2017. The goal of HuffPost’s “Listen to America” tour is to engage in conversations with people across the country of all ages and backgrounds.
Jennifer Jacobs, whose journey to White House correspondent began in Iowa, will bring back home tales of covering the Trump presidency when she serves as the annual Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet’s guest speaker in Des Moines on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017.
IowaWatch reporter Krista Johnson and IowaWatch executive director-editor Lyle Muller spoke on KXIC Radio's July 18, 2017, "Your Town" segment about Johnson's reporting project -- "Criminal Confessions: Coerced or Real?" Listen here to the podcast.
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, which runs IowaWatch.org, has filed its 990 tax return for 2016. The return shows how the nonprofit center earned and spent money
This chart shows the population of every city, town and unincorporated village with fewer than 5,000 people reported in the 2020 Census. The chart is in alphabetical order.
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This chart shows the population of every city, town and unincorporated village reported in the 2020 Census. The chart is in alphabetical order.
A four-month IowaWatch investigation that included
You may read here the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism's 990 tax return for 2019. It covers our work at the IowaWatch.org news website and our educational programming for student journalists who produce in-depth reporting with IowaWatch staff journalists.
Fifty years ago Wadena, Iowa, hosted a rock festival that now is part of Iowa history. Iowa has other ties to rock music, as you can learn in this news quiz.
