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Podcast: Journalism Credibility In Crisis

Challenges facing modern-day journalism are at to a crisis stage as many Americans’ lack understanding of a critical news media’s role in society, IowaWatch cofounder and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Stephen Berry said during a recent visit to Iowa and in an IowaWatch Connection p

By Jeff Stein

/ 1 Oct 2018

Podcast: Journalism Credibility In Crisis

IowaWatch Co-Founder Returning To Iowa To Headline Sept. 27 Celebrating A Free Press And Open Government Banquet

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Stephen J. Berry, whose push for journalists to work thoroughly and ethically led him to co-found the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch, will be the annual Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet’s guest speaker in Des Moine

By IowaWatch

/ 16 Aug 2018

News Quiz With Something About Iowa Newspapers You Might Not Know

For as long as Iowa has existed newspapers have recorded the events and people shaping communities, informing current residents but also leaving a history for future generations. But you might

By IowaWatch

/ 30 Jan 2018

News Quiz With Something About Iowa Newspapers You Might Not Know

They Called This Young Iowa Woman Plucky For Running A Newspaper In The Late 1880s

“I am strong and hearty, and as willing to work as any man,” Katie Prehm wrote in a letter to the White House in 1878. The Traer, Iowa, girl was

By Cheryl Mullenbach/Iowa History

/ 27 Jan 2018

They Called This Young Iowa Woman Plucky For Running A Newspaper In The Late 1880s

IowaWatch, Iowa Freedom of Information Council Honor Open Government Advocates At 2017 Banquet

IowaWatch honored an outstanding journalist and a long-time advocate for newspapers during its fifth annual banquet October 5. See the story here.

By Sarah Fields

/ 5 Oct 2017

IowaWatch, Iowa Freedom of Information Council Honor Open Government Advocates At 2017 Banquet

Iowa's College-Based Newspapers Adapt To Digital Readers

Student-run college newspapers in Iowa are feeling newspaper industry trend repercussions, reporting fewer print readers but increased online readership as young readers increasingly get their news from digital sources.

By Madison Coates

/ 6 Feb 2017

Iowa's College-Based Newspapers Adapt To Digital Readers

IowaWatch Gains Two Major Grants, Matching Funds Needed With One

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.

By IowaWatch

/ 16 Feb 2016

IowaWatch Gains Two Major Grants, Matching Funds Needed With One

Iowa Draws A Lowly D+ In New Government Transparency Report

The fact that state authorities sought to obstruct disclosure of a police shooting in Burlington explains, in part, why Iowa received an overall grade of D+ in a 2015 State Integrity Investigation conducted by the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity.

By Lauren Mills/Center for Public Integrity

/ 9 Nov 2015

Iowa Draws A Lowly D+ In New Government Transparency Report

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

Podcast: IowaWatch Connection Updates Evansdale Double Murder Case

This podcast of an IowaWatch Connection radio report lets you hear more about the abduction and murder of two Evansdale, Iowa, cousins, and efforts to find their killer or killers.

By IowaWatch

/ 3 Aug 2015

Podcast: IowaWatch Connection Updates Evansdale Double Murder Case

Onawa Woman On A Crusade To Solve Iowa Murder Mysteries

Jody Ewing works with meager resources but plenty of passion as she ensures that Iowa's unsolved murder cases are not forgotten.

By Mike Kilen/The Des Moines Register

/ 28 Jul 2015

Onawa Woman On A Crusade To Solve Iowa Murder Mysteries

False Leads Make For Long Investigation Into Northeast Iowa Cousins' Murders

The theories have been plenty. Most lead to nothing. Yet, investigators keep listening because they want to catch whoever killed Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins.

By Lyle Muller

/ 26 Jul 2015

False Leads Make For Long Investigation Into Northeast Iowa Cousins' Murders