IowaWatch co-founder Stephen J. Berry called for rebuilding trust in the news media with better media literacy among Americans but also on journalists to adhere to strong ethics during remarks at the 2018 Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 27, 2018. We
The biggest concern facing the general public when it tries to determine what news source to trust? "The wide variety of people who produce news, and only some of them our journalists," David Ryfe, professor and chairman of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said in
Finding the right source for a news story always has been important but the public demands more, especially in the current political climate in the United States. IowaWatch co-founder Stephen Berry was part of an “Ethical Perspectives on the News” television program that addressed that demand.
Iowa Public Television produced a program, "Profiles in Journalism," in December 2016 as part of a project bringing attention to the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in which IowaWatch participated in two ways.
