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You Won’t Beat Steve King With A Former Psychic

Two of my friends are polar opposites when it comes to politics. One is oh so liberal. Excuse me, oh so progressive. The other is conservative. Quite so. They don’

By Randy Evans

/ 26 Apr 2017

You Won’t Beat Steve King With A Former Psychic

Free Speech On Campus, Overdose Drug Legislation Top 2016 IowaWatch Stories List

Controversy about speech limits on college campuses in Iowa drew the most attention of all the IowaWatch stories written in 2016. Here is a look at our most-read stories of the year.

By Tyler McClelland

/ 28 Dec 2016

Free Speech On Campus, Overdose Drug Legislation Top 2016 IowaWatch Stories List

Iowa State University Wrestles With Free-Speech Zones

Iowa State University has been a focal point for free speech issues the past few years because of moves free speech advocates criticized as stifling speech and expression.

By Makayla Tendall and Alex Connor

/ 4 May 2016

Iowa State University Wrestles With Free-Speech Zones

Free Speech Battles Come To Boil at Cornell College This Spring

Recent incidents at a small private Iowa college have evolved into an example of how animosities occur, spread across campus and sometimes shut down communication when different interpretations of free speech exist.

By Christina Rueth and Clare McCarthy

/ 3 May 2016

Free Speech Battles Come To Boil at Cornell College This Spring

In Their Words: Free Speech On College Campuses In Iowa

Students, teachers and administrators share their thoughts about speech and expression boundaries on Iowa college campuses. READER ADVISORY: Derogatory language in this report may be viewed as offensive.

By IowaWatch College Media Reporting Team

/ 2 May 2016

Help Us Support Student Work

Does a limit on speech and expression exist on Iowa’s college campuses, where you expect the free flow of ideas to broaden education? Help a team of Iowa college student journalists working with IowaWatch answer that question by giving a tax-deductible donation that supports the students’ efforts. D

By IowaWatch

/ 22 Mar 2016

Former College Newspaper Editor, Adviser And Two Open Government Veterans Honored For Their Efforts

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.

By Julian Sanchez

/ 8 Oct 2015

Former College Newspaper Editor, Adviser And Two Open Government Veterans Honored For Their Efforts

Jim Bohannon: We Should Be Passionately, Shamelessly Promoting First Amendment Benefits

Jim Bohannon, host of the popular radio news talk programs “The Jim Bohannon Show” and “America in the Morning“, spoke Oct. 2, 2014, in Des Moines at the annual Celebrating

By Inma Mateos

/ 4 Oct 2014

Jim Bohannon: We Should Be Passionately, Shamelessly Promoting First Amendment Benefits

Brian Cooper, Michael Gartner Named IowaWatch Free Press Champions

Two longtime Iowa journalists -- Brian Cooper, editor of The Telegraph Herald in Dubuque, and First Amendment advocate Michael Gartner, owner of the Iowa Cubs baseball team -- were honored by the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch Thursday, Oct. 2, with Free Press Champion Awards. T

By IowaWatch

/ 3 Oct 2014

Brian Cooper, Michael Gartner Named IowaWatch Free Press Champions

Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet Oct. 3

On October 3, The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch.org and Iowa Newspaper Association will host the first of what organizers hope will be an annual banquet that

By Joy Chang

/ 18 Sep 2013

Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet Oct. 3