I, as co-founder of IowaWatch.org, would like to congratulate you, the members of the IowaWatch family. Thanks to your past support, IowaWatch’s journalistic success had earned for us a chance to receive up to $28,000 in matching funds from a $3 million national News Match 2017 fund drive.
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.