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
IowaWatch will host forums on Sept. 14 and 15 in North Liberty and Iowa City, respectively, that give the public a chance to talk with local newspaper editors about decisions editors make about news, and how to get news into the papers.
IowaWatch assistant editor and data analyst Lauren Mills and Iowa City Press-Citizen reporter Stephen Gruber-Miller were guests on the Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, "Your Town" segment of Jay Capron's morning show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City.
The International Literacy Association has given Cheryl Mullenbach's children’s book "The Industrial Revolution for Kids: The People and Technology That Changed the World, with 21 Activities," its 2015 award for intermediate nonfiction writing.
IowaWatch summer intern Makayla Tendall and executive director-editor Lyle Muller were guests of the Tuesday, July 21, 2015, "Your Town" segment of Jay Capron's morning show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City. Listen here.
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.
A July 22 Corridor Business Journal panel discussion led by IowaWatch Executive Director and Editor Lyle Muller will look into why many well-educated students move out of state after graduating from an Iowa college or university. Register here.
Listen to the Podcast: IowaWatch summer intern Clare McCarthy and executive director-editor Lyle Muller talked on the Tuesday, June 16, 2015, "Your Town" show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City about the IowaWatch News Quiz and a Haley Hansel story about wage theft.
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
IowaWatch co-founder Stephen Berry and digital analyst/assistant editor Lauren Mills talked on the Tuesday, May 19, 2015, “Your Town” show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City
A little more than five years ago a small group of forward-thinking people could only imagine what the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism with its news website, IowaWatch.org, would be. That changed on May 29, 2010, when the first IowaWatch story was published.
An IowaWatch story former reporter Lu Shen wrote about University of Iowa difficulty helping Chinese students adjust to Iowa in 2013-14 has won the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) Mark of Excellence Award for best online news story by a college journalist in 2014.
