IowaWatch honored an outstanding investigative journalist and a former public health spokesperson, both judged to be advocates for open and transparent government, during the Virtual Storytelling Event on Friday, Nov.
URBANDALE, Iowa – IowaWatch is taking nominations for the Stephen Berry and Randy Brubaker Free Press Champion awards. The awards are being presented this year after a break in 2020 due
Several times a week, someone contacts me because they had difficulty learning about a government meeting or ran into obstacles trying to get government records.
These calls and emails to
The 2021 session of the Iowa Legislature will end in a few weeks, and one big issue moving toward a final vote would make charter schools easier to create as
When the Iowa Legislature wrote the state’s public records law 50 years ago, lawmakers wanted to guarantee that anyone could obtain copies of state and local government records that
COVID-19 has Iowans wanting more information from federal, state and local governments to guide life-or-death decisions raised by the unprecedented pandemic.
Is it safe to go to
There’s a quiz today.
How would the tragic death of George Floyd have been perceived if the encounter occurred on a deserted side street in the middle of the
The First Amendment isn’t long, but it certainly packs a lot of angst into those few words: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemb
There’s an old expression that officials of Indian Hills Community College obviously have not heard about — or have chosen to ignore.
The expression is simple: If you find yourself
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
There was snow and ice on the ground in Burlington on the morning of January 6, 2015. About 10:30, police were summoned to where Autumn and Gabriel Steele were arguing outside their house.
My role as executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council has taken me from border to border in our state.
The message I’ve preached at each stop
