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.
Pete Wilson, a New Orleans resident and 2009 graduate of the University of Iowa masters journalism program, recently visited Grand Isle, La., to take stock of the BP oil spill. “I kept hearing … the situation was worse than what was being reported, so I went down to Grand Isle to see for myself,” Wi
Dear Friends of IowaWatch,
The IRS notified me Tuesday that it granted the Iowa Center tax-exempt status, a designation vitally important to you and to our mission.
Granted under
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
Dear Friends of IowaWatch,
Back in March, Daily Iowan reporter Danny Valentine walked into my office and dropped an envelope on my table. Inside were five, $100 bills. I want
Around 1 p.m. on a cold, gray Oct. 10, volunteer searcher Merry Thies snapped her cell phone shut and relayed the news to Dessalines Similhomme: “They found a body
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)
