Podcast: Inside The Reporters' Notebooks For Stories On Mental Health, Opioid Addiction In Iowa
In-depth reporting on health and government topics requires a large investment of resources and time by journalists. We talk with three Iowa journalists about work they did behind the scenes for important stories.
How some of those stories make it in print and on the air might surprise you. IowaWatch summer 2016 intern Thomas Nelson interviewed Tony Leys of The Des Moines Register about an example of Leys’ reporting of a man stranded at Broadlawns Medical Center’s psychiatric unit in Des Moines for a year and two months after being cleared for release.
IowaWatch’s summer 2016 Society of Professional Journalism fellow Brittany Robb interviewed Lee Hermiston and Chelsea Keenan of The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA) about a series of stories they wrote about opioid addiction in Iowa.
Join us at Walker Homestead for an evening of wood-fired pizza, live music, and community connection in support of independent, investigative journalism. Investigate Midwest’s annual fundraiser supports our IowaWatch newsroom.
We recently brought back our Live Storytelling series in Iowa City — and the photos are in.
Co-produced with the University of Iowa Events Management Certification program, the night featured
You're invited to an evening of live storytelling featuring powerful, personal stories from five Iowa men with backgrounds in journalism, education, comedy, and the arts.
Iowa’s farmlands are hotbeds for greenhouse gases, with nitrous oxide accounting for 59% of agricultural emissions in 2022.
These emissions are primarily driven by nitrogen fertilizer applications and animal
