LOS ANGELES – The inaugural CEO of the newly-formed Investigative News Network, Kevin Davis, spoke this month at a gathering at the University of Southern California about “pioneering new economic
This story, written by Jim Malewitz, was a collaborative effort by Iowa Public Radio and IowaWatch.org. Listen to the IPR report [http://www.iowapublicradio.org/audio/newsroom/nr100813SchoolTaxBreak.mp3]. Iowa Watch examines the affect that a failed state tax incentive has on Iowa taxpayers.
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism has been accepted into the Investigative News Network, a national consortium of non-profit investigative news centers.
The Center was among seven other
When University of Iowa student Jacques Similhomme, the son of a refugee Haitian preacher mysteriously disappeared on Sept. 28, 2009, his father pleaded with university, police and media officialdom to help find his son. For the most part, he met silence.
Iowa Center co-founders Stephen J. Berry and Robert Gutsche Jr. attended the second annual conference on new journalism and media ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on April
In an attempt to share the values and possibilities of non-profit journalism, Robert Gutsche Jr., director of outreach at the Iowa Center, published a story this spring targeted at
The Iowa Center has partnered with The Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center to form articles of incorporation, establish bylaws and build a greater understanding of 501(c)(3)
“From the Classroom,” is a section of IowaWatch.org that focuses on strong writing and reporting produced in college journalism classrooms across the state. Each story will go through rigorous
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism Board of Directors met Friday, March 26 at the Iowa City Public Library. Its first meeting marked the collaboration of some of the state and nation’s media and education leaders to form the new, non-profit and non-partisan news outlet that will serve the
