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Brooke Rollins’ agenda, immigration crackdowns and pesticide worries: our next focus

What’s in store for the reporting team at Investigate Midwest.

/ 2 Jul 2025

Brooke Rollins’ agenda, immigration crackdowns and pesticide worries: our next focus

A News Match Letter From IowaWatch Co-Founder Steve Berry

I, as co-founder of IowaWatch.org, would like to congratulate you, the members of the IowaWatch family. Thanks to your past support, IowaWatch’s journalistic success had earned for us a chance to receive up to $28,000 in matching funds from a $3 million national News Match 2017 fund drive.

By Stephen J. Berry

/ 5 Dec 2017

A News Match Letter From IowaWatch Co-Founder Steve Berry

How You Can Support IowaWatch In News Match 2017

IowaWatch is included in a huge, national News Match 2017 fund drive that will benefit our non-profit news gathering and training program with up to $28,000 in matching funds. It will help support our training of the next generation of journalists in our democracy.

By Lyle Muller

/ 12 Oct 2017

IowaWatch Fund Drive Thank You

A little more than one month ago we challenged you to help us raise $1,809 in personal donations by the end December. That would put donations $1 above what you gave the 501(c)(3) nonprofit IowaWatch the last month of 2015. We could not have imagined then what was to happen in the following 30 days.

By Lyle Muller

/ 30 Dec 2016

Iowa's Bid For Open Government Is Never-Ending

The grade might stun you — Iowa receiving a D-plus for government transparency from the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity Monday morning, Nov. 9, in a government transparency

By Lyle Muller

/ 16 Nov 2015

Iowa's Bid For Open Government Is Never-Ending

View Our 2015 Annual Report and 990 Tax Return for 2014

The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch.org released on Oct. 8, 2015, an annual report that shows advancements the nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization made in the past year.

By IowaWatch

/ 14 Oct 2015

View Our 2015 Annual Report and 990 Tax Return for 2014

Join Us At An Oct. 22 Fun-Raiser And Silent Auction

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

By Lindsey Drilling

/ 21 Sep 2015

Join Us At An Oct. 22 Fun-Raiser And Silent Auction

1st Amendment Expert Ken Paulson To Headline Annual IowaWatch Banquet Oct. 8

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.

By IowaWatch

/ 21 Aug 2015

1st Amendment Expert Ken Paulson To Headline Annual IowaWatch Banquet Oct. 8

Make Your Tax-Deductible Donation To IowaWatch

Do you like what you see from IowaWatch.org? If so, the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism seeks your financial assistance to maintain the high level of investigative and community affairs journalism it does while training college students to do this work at a high level.

By IowaWatch

/ 8 Jul 2015

Make Your Tax-Deductible Donation To IowaWatch

Impact Of First IowaWatch Story 5 Years Ago Remains With Reporter

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

By Jim Malewitz/Special to IowaWatch

/ 28 May 2015

Impact Of First IowaWatch Story 5 Years Ago Remains With Reporter

IowaWatch Connection Earns Six IBNA Awards

The IowaWatch Connection radio program collected six awards for large market radio reporting at the 2015 Iowa Broadcast News Association convention in Johnston, Iowa, on April 18. Each week program

By IowaWatch

/ 20 Apr 2015

IowaWatch Connection Earns Six IBNA Awards

IowaWatch Receives Two Major Grants Worth $85,000

The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, The Gazette and KCRG-TV9 show continued support for IowaWatch effort.

By IowaWatch

/ 17 Feb 2015

IowaWatch Receives Two Major Grants Worth $85,000

Brooke Rollins’ agenda, immigration crackdowns and pesticide worries: our next focus

A News Match Letter From IowaWatch Co-Founder Steve Berry

How You Can Support IowaWatch In News Match 2017

IowaWatch Fund Drive Thank You

Iowa's Bid For Open Government Is Never-Ending

View Our 2015 Annual Report and 990 Tax Return for 2014

Join Us At An Oct. 22 Fun-Raiser And Silent Auction

1st Amendment Expert Ken Paulson To Headline Annual IowaWatch Banquet Oct. 8

Make Your Tax-Deductible Donation To IowaWatch

Impact Of First IowaWatch Story 5 Years Ago Remains With Reporter

IowaWatch Connection Earns Six IBNA Awards

IowaWatch Receives Two Major Grants Worth $85,000

THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS

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