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IowaWatch The Local News Partner For HuffPost’s Iowa Stop On Listening Tour

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.

By Mariah Prendergast

/ 13 Sep 2017

IowaWatch The Local News Partner For HuffPost’s Iowa Stop On Listening Tour

White House Correspondent With Iowa Ties To Headline Annual Banquet Oct. 5

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.

By IowaWatch

/ 17 Aug 2017

White House Correspondent With Iowa Ties To Headline Annual Banquet Oct. 5

Hear KXIC segment on "Criminal Confessions: Coerced or Real?"

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.

By IowaWatch

/ 21 Jul 2017

Hear KXIC segment on "Criminal Confessions: Coerced or Real?"

View IowaWatch's 990 Tax Return For 2016

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

By IowaWatch

/ 15 Jul 2017

View IowaWatch's 990 Tax Return For 2016

Help Us Support Student Journalists

We at IowaWatch are raising funds to pay stipends to more than a dozen student journalists from six Iowa campuses in an IowaWatch/College Media reporting project. These journalists are interviewing students, faculty members and administrators to learn about this topic and to report it to you later d

By IowaWatch

/ 20 Mar 2017

From IowaWatch's Co-Founder: Why Your Donation Makes Sense

A recent study by BuzzFeed News confirmed a disturbing feeling that grew increasingly intense as the presidential campaign wore on. It was a sense that falsity was overwhelming facts in the information base voters would use to ...

By Stephen Berry

/ 26 Dec 2016

From IowaWatch's Co-Founder: Why Your Donation Makes Sense

IowaWatch Part Of IPTV 'Profiles In Journalism' Program

Iowa Public Television produced a program, "Profiles in Journalism," in December 2016 as part of a project bringing attention to the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in which IowaWatch participated in two ways.

By IowaWatch

/ 26 Dec 2016

IowaWatch Part Of IPTV 'Profiles In Journalism' Program

'Ethical Perspectives on the News' Takes Post-Election Look At U.S., Iowa

IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller was a guest on a recent Ethical Perspectives on the News program KCRG-TV-9 along with Tim Hagle, professor of political science at the University of Iowa; and Jesse Case of Teamsters Local 238. The host and moderator was Karl Cassell.

By IowaWatch

/ 22 Dec 2016

'Ethical Perspectives on the News' Takes Post-Election Look At U.S., Iowa

IowaWatch Selected For Knight News Match

IowaWatch, run by the non-profit, non-partisan Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, is one of 57 news organizations the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has selected for a one-month-long matching fund drive.

By IowaWatch

/ 20 Dec 2016

IowaWatch Selected For Knight News Match

Inside The Reporter's Notebook: IowaWatch's Report On Homeless Veterans

As military veterans leave their positions in the armed forces, some face daunting reality of homelessness, a summer IowaWatch report revealed. We take you into the reporter's notebook for this podcast interview with the project's author, Thomas Nelson.

By Julian Sanchez

/ 10 Nov 2016

Inside The Reporter's Notebook: IowaWatch's Report On Homeless Veterans

Video: Learn About IowaWatch

Support IowaWatch in the Knight News Match program. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will match each $1 you donate through Jan. 19, up to $1,000. Get

By Rosemary Adams

/ 25 Oct 2016

View Our 2016 Annual Report and 990 Tax Return for 2015

The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch.org released on Sept. 29, 2016, an annual report that shows accomplishment of the nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization in the past year. You may read it and our 990 tax return here.

By IowaWatch

/ 14 Oct 2016

View Our 2016 Annual Report and 990 Tax Return for 2015

IowaWatch The Local News Partner For HuffPost’s Iowa Stop On Listening Tour

White House Correspondent With Iowa Ties To Headline Annual Banquet Oct. 5

Hear KXIC segment on "Criminal Confessions: Coerced or Real?"

View IowaWatch's 990 Tax Return For 2016

Help Us Support Student Journalists

From IowaWatch's Co-Founder: Why Your Donation Makes Sense

IowaWatch Part Of IPTV 'Profiles In Journalism' Program

'Ethical Perspectives on the News' Takes Post-Election Look At U.S., Iowa

IowaWatch Selected For Knight News Match

Inside The Reporter's Notebook: IowaWatch's Report On Homeless Veterans

Video: Learn About IowaWatch

View Our 2016 Annual Report and 990 Tax Return for 2015

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