Iowans with mental illness are being stranded at hospitals for months after being cleared to for release, according to a recent Des Moines Register report. In an IowaWatch interview, Register reporter Tony Leys said he heard a comment that led to this story during his coverage of other health care i
Cheryl Mullenbach, whose columns about Iowa history were a weekly feature at IowaWatch.org in 2015, is returning to her old spot with new columns each Saturday, beginning June 4. Her new column will be called “Iowa History.”
Former Boston Globe Spotlight investigative reporting team member Matt Carroll told an IowaWatch audience about the importance of dogged investigative reporting before the audience viewed the Oscar-winning movie “Spotlight” in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, May 5.
The IowaWatch Connection radio program collected seven awards, including three for first place, for large market radio reporting at the 2016 Iowa Broadcast News Association convention in Waterloo, Iowa, on
Panelists have been confirmed for the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch public forum on Monday, May 2, in Iowa City that examines whether or not limits exist for speech and expression on college campuses. The forum is part of a spring IowaWatch reporting project, “Making Boundaries
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch will hold a public forum on Tuesday, May 2, in Iowa City that examines whether or not limits exist for speech and
The first radio programs in an IowaWatch series on Pulitzer Prize-winning Iowa journalism focus on a unique way of handling news reports of a difficult topic in 1990 – rape.
We all know what freedom of speech and expression mean, right? Well, maybe not. So The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch is launching an investigation: “MAKING BOUNDARIES: The Impact of Defining Boundaries for Speech and Expression on College Campuses.” But we need your donations t
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
The Fund for Investigative Journalism has awarded IowaWatch’s Lauren Mills a $5,000 grant to support a journalism project in which she will examine Iowa’s water quality. This marks the third time the organization has given an IowaWatch reporter a grant and the second time it has given one to Mills,
The Great Depression for Kids: Hardship and Hope in 1930s America, by Cheryl Mullenbach, has made the list of Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2016.
Iowa Public Radio examined the importance of investigative journalism, nationally and in Iowa, during its Tuesday, Feb. 23, "River to River" program and included IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller, IowaWatch board member Andy Hall and Jason Clayworth, investigative reporter at The Des M
