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NewsMatch Raises $7.6 Million For Nonprofit News Organizations In 2018

NewsMatch raised $7.6 million nationally from individual donors and a coalition of major funders for nonprofit news organizations, including IowaWatch, in two months at the end of 2018.

By NewsMatch/IowaWatch

/ 12 Feb 2019

IowaWatch Co-Founder Returning To Iowa To Headline Sept. 27 Celebrating A Free Press And Open Government Banquet

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Stephen J. Berry, whose push for journalists to work thoroughly and ethically led him to co-found the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch, will be the annual Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet’s guest speaker in Des Moine

By IowaWatch

/ 16 Aug 2018

Why Journalists, Including Those With Nonprofits, Are Not Enemies Of The State

Today, the Institute for Nonprofit News joins journalists across the country in asking you, the public, to stand up for your rights to free speech and an open government. This started as a campaign by the Boston Globe to ask the President of the United States to knock off attacking the news media.

By Sue Cross, executive director and CEO, Institute for Nonprofit News

/ 16 Aug 2018

Why Journalists, Including Those With Nonprofits, Are Not Enemies Of The State

Evans: First Amendment Deserves Our Respect, Too

As we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence 242 years ago on July 4, as we mourn the murders last week of five employees of the Annapolis, Md., Capital Gazette, four of them journalists, and as we think about the “fake news” accusations and slanderous “enemy of the American people

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 3 Jul 2018

Evans: First Amendment Deserves Our Respect, Too

Your IowaWatch Donation Will Be Doubled

#GivingNewsDay tax-deductible donation supports investigative journalism and training for new journalists in Iowa.

By IowaWatch

/ 28 Nov 2017

How News Match Will Double Your Support Of IowaWatch

IowaWatch is one of only 110 organizations selected to be part of a fundraising campaign to help nonprofit, investigative news organizations continue their mission of protecting truth and democracy. During the campaign, individual donations up to $1,000 will be matched through Dec. 31 by the campaig

By Mariah Prendergast

/ 1 Nov 2017

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

Has The First Amendment Been Repealed?

It was quite a week last week with the buzz about impeachment. Relax. I’m not referring to President Donald Trump. I’m talking about the mayor of Muscatine.

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 17 May 2017

Stray Thoughts: There Are Important Lessons In Simplicity

Envy affects people in different ways. Some of us are motivated by the old adage of “keeping up with the Joneses.” But I have no desire to keep up with

By Randy Evans

/ 10 May 2017

Stray Thoughts: There Are Important Lessons In Simplicity

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

Last Chance To Support IowaWatch With Knight News Match Donation Tonight

Today is the last day you can take advantage of the Knight News Match. Every $10 you donate becomes $20 for IowaWatch because of the Knight Foundation’s designation of IowaWatch as a worthy non-profit news organization.

By Lyle Muller

/ 18 Jan 2017

Last Chance To Support IowaWatch With Knight News Match Donation Tonight

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