IowaWatch's staff traveled to San Francisco for the Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference and Investigative News Network Day. Both were selected to participate either as a presenter or panelist.
Jay Capron, host of Your Town on KXIC radio, AM 800, featured on Tuesday, June 17, the IowaWatch story on the emergence of cellulosic ethanol, or trashanol, whole also giving
Lisa Rossi, news editor for the American Journalism Review (AJR) and a faculty member at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, has joined the Iowa
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism is in an ambitious year in which it wants to engage Iowans in news that affects their lives. You can support that effort
Jay Capron, host of Our Town on KXIC radio, AM 800, featured on Tuesday, May 20, IowaWatch stories about debt carried by college graduates in Iowa and hidden costs of study abroad for college students. Our Town features IowaWatch the third Tuesday of every month.
One of WMT radio talk show host Bob Bruce’s guests the afternoon of May 17, 2014, was IowaWatch’s executive director-editor, Lyle Muller. They talked about a variety
Graduating journalism students at Simpson College have prepared a special IowaWatch report, Going Global, about the hidden costs of studying abroad. Watch a preview here and look for the report
IowaWatch reporters Katie Kuntz and Sarah Hadley have won regional Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) regional Mark of Excellence Awards for stories they did in 2013 for IowaWatch.org and
The request seemed simple: provide your school district’s policy for handling emergencies that require a school lockdown and notifying parents. No one responded the way the Iowa City Community School District did. “Per your request and prior to starting the process, I wanted to inform you that the f
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch has won a $25,000 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation grant, awarded through the Investigative News Network, that will help
Three distinguished experts will speak later this month at an IowaWatch forum on important decisions Iowans have to make about long-term elder care. The forum, titled Critical Decisions About Elder Care, will be in Des Moines on Tuesday, April 29.
Listen to IowaWatch reporter Rana Moustafa talk about her reporting for the report, "Depression In College: Students’ Struggles With Depression Add Barrier to Graduation," by Rana and Linh Ta. Here is a podcast of the KXIC program in which the story was featured.
