The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism—IowaWatch has received two major grants for operating expenses in 2016: $75,000 from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and $10,000 from The Gazette Co.
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch has joined the Iowa Freedom of Information Council as a First Amendment member because it matches the center’s goal of shining a spotlight on institutions and people who have authority over public policies, trends and events.
IowaWatch reporters Hannah Soyer and Danielle Wilde, spoke with assistant editor/data analyst/reporter Lauren Mills about the experience of covering their first Iowa caucuses in this podcast.
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch has honored two longtime Iowa news professionals for work they’ve done as mentors to young journalists – The Daily Iowan publisher Bill Casey and The Des Moines Register watchdog reporter Lee Rood.
Problems college students face drew the most attention of all the 2015 IowaWatch stories that were written. But useful IowaWatch stories from previous years also were among those read most in 2015.
IowaWatch was selected as one of two locations for a summer 2016 fellowship through the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, the educational foundation for the Society of Professional Journalists.
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University of Iowa student Danielle Wilde has won the 2015 IowaWatch/Fotini Perlmutter scholarship, an annual award given for outstanding investigative reporting.
The award, funded with a grant by former
AARP Iowa and IowaWatch.org are teaming up to host two luncheon panel discussions, Navigating the Workplace at 50, in Des Moines on Tuesday, Nov. 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Grandview University Student Center, 1200 Grandview Ave.; and in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Nov. 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 1
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.
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.
Michael Libbie, host of the weekday news program ‘Insight On Business’, recently interviewed Lyle Muller, executive director and editor of the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, about covering Iowa’
