You Won’t Beat Steve King With A Former Psychic
Two of my friends are polar opposites when it comes to politics. One is oh so liberal. Excuse me, oh so progressive. The other is conservative. Quite so. They don’t often agree on issues. On other...
View ArticleStray Thoughts: There Are Important Lessons In Simplicity
Envy affects people in different ways. Some of us are motivated by the old adage of “keeping up with the Joneses.” But I have no desire to keep up with them, or with the Trumps. I would not want to...
View ArticleHas The First Amendment Been Repealed?
It was quite a week last week with the buzz about impeachment. Relax. I’m not referring to President Donald Trump. I’m talking about the mayor of Muscatine. Diana Broderson was removed from office by a...
View ArticleWhite House Correspondent With Iowa Ties To Headline Annual Banquet Oct. 5
BUY TICKETS HERE Jennifer Jacobs, whose journey to White House correspondent began in Iowa, will bring back home tales of covering the Trump presidency when she serves as the annual Celebrating a...
View ArticleHow News Match Will Double Your Support Of IowaWatch
IowaWatch is eligible for matching funds from News Match 2017. Help us reach our goal: IowaWatch is one of only 110 organizations selected to be part of a fundraising campaign to help nonprofit,...
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DONATE HERE You care about good investigative news and IowaWatch.org delivers. Plus, we train the next generation of journalists at the beginning of their careers to do this work at a high level so...
View ArticleEvans: First Amendment Deserves Our Respect, Too
Sunday morning (July 1), government officials gathered in Des Moines to brief journalists about the storm that swamped the city and surrounding area with between 5 and 10 inches of rain Saturday night....
View ArticleWhy Journalists, Including Those With Nonprofits, Are Not Enemies Of The State
NOTE: The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch has been a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News since 2010. The following is from the INN’s executive director, Sue Cross. It is one...
View ArticleIowaWatch Co-Founder Returning To Iowa To Headline Sept. 27 Celebrating A...
DON’T MISS AN IOWAWATCH STORY. SUBSCRIBE NOW TO OUR NEWSLETTER. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Stephen J. Berry, whose push for journalists to work thoroughly and ethically led him to...
View ArticleNewsMatch Raises $7.6 Million For Nonprofit News Organizations In 2018
NewsMatch raised $7.6 million from individual donors and a coalition of major funders for nonprofit news organizations in two months at the end of 2018. During the largest-ever grassroots fundraising...
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