IowaWatch, run by the non-profit, non-partisan Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, is one of 57 news organizations the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has selected for a one-month-long matching fund drive.
A little more than five years ago a small group of forward-thinking people could only imagine what the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism with its news website, IowaWatch.org, would be. That changed on May 29, 2010, when the first IowaWatch story was published.