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.
The biggest concern facing the general public when it tries to determine what news source to trust? "The wide variety of people who produce news, and only some of them our journalists," David Ryfe, professor and chairman of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said in
Finding the right source for a news story always has been important but the public demands more, especially in the current political climate in the United States. IowaWatch co-founder Stephen Berry was part of an “Ethical Perspectives on the News” television program that addressed that demand.
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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 ...
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.
