A former Muscatine Community College student newspaper editor and that paper’s former faculty adviser were awarded the IowaWatch Free Press Champion Award for working Iowa journalists or journalism educators at the annual IowaWatch Celebrate a Free Press and Open Government banquet in Des Moines.
Michael Libbie, host of the weekday news program ‘Insight On Business’, recently interviewed Lyle Muller, executive director and editor of the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, about covering Iowa’
IowaWatch board member Bob Walker and his wife, Kristy, are inviting the public to a fundraiser and silent auction they will host at their home west of Iowa City to
Register now for the IowaWatch annual banquet. First Amendment expert and educator Ken Paulson will be the guest speaker at the third annual Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet, titled this year “Journalism's Core...The Contemporary First Amendment.
The Gazette's investigative reporter Erin Jordan explains the reporting she did to reveal why some Iowans are concerned about a generous tax credit Student Tuition Organizations get to assist students at private schools.
IowaWatch will host forums on Sept. 14 and 15 in North Liberty and Iowa City, respectively, that give the public a chance to talk with local newspaper editors about decisions editors make about news, and how to get news into the papers.
IowaWatch assistant editor and data analyst Lauren Mills and Iowa City Press-Citizen reporter Stephen Gruber-Miller were guests on the Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, "Your Town" segment of Jay Capron's morning show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City.
The International Literacy Association has given Cheryl Mullenbach's children’s book "The Industrial Revolution for Kids: The People and Technology That Changed the World, with 21 Activities," its 2015 award for intermediate nonfiction writing.
IowaWatch summer intern Makayla Tendall and executive director-editor Lyle Muller were guests of the Tuesday, July 21, 2015, "Your Town" segment of Jay Capron's morning show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City. Listen here.
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Listen to the Podcast: IowaWatch summer intern Clare McCarthy and executive director-editor Lyle Muller talked on the Tuesday, June 16, 2015, "Your Town" show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City about the IowaWatch News Quiz and a Haley Hansel story about wage theft.
It started with a short news clip.
On October 12, 2009, The Daily Iowan ran a 244-word brief saying that University of Iowa business student Jacques Similhomme, missing for
