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NewsMatch Raises $7.6 Million For Nonprofit News Organizations In 2018

By NewsMatch/IowaWatch | February 12, 2019

NewsMatch raised $7.6 million nationally from individual donors and a coalition of major funders for nonprofit news organizations, including IowaWatch, in two months at the end of 2018.

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Thank You For Helping Us Break Our NewsMatch Record

By IowaWatch | January 4, 2019

Thanks to 123 generous donors The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, which runs the IowaWatch.org news effort, raised $29,023 in its end-of-the-year NewsMatch fund drive.

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Bush 41 And Iowa Farm Couple Have Lit The Way

By Randy Evans/Stray Thoughts | December 13, 2018

We Americans are an impatient bunch. We typically don’t like to wait in line — unless there’s something we truly want, like much-sought-after concert tickets or whatever this year’s Tickle Me Elmo gift was on Black Friday.

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A Call For Supporting Democracy And IowaWatch

By Forrest Meyer, for IowaWatch | December 11, 2018

Citizens in possession of good information is the only way a system of free people governing themselves can work. We call such a system democracy.

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Honoree’s Life Shows What A Helping Hand Can Mean

By Randy Evans/Stray Thoughts | October 24, 2018

Each year in October, when the Iowa countryside transforms from gorgeous summer greens to harvest season hues of tan, some of the world’s top agricultural scientists and anti-hunger activists gather in Des Moines to compare notes. The occasion is the presentation of the annual World Food Prize.

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IowaWatch Among More Than 150 Nonprofit Newsrooms In Third Year Of NewsMatch, National Initiative To Donate To Journalism

By NewsMatch/IowaWatch | September 12, 2018

IowaWatch, run by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, is one of more than 150 nonprofit newsrooms across the country selected to participate in this year’s NewsMatch for a third straight year. The national call-to-action will launch on Nov. 1, 2018.

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Logan, Newmark Grants Boost IowaWatch Journalism

By IowaWatch | August 22, 2018

The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch has received two significant grants for general operating expenses, with a matching challenge attached to one.

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These Students Provided A Much-Needed Antidote

By Randy Evans/Stray Thoughts | February 15, 2018

Am I the only one who is discouraged these days? My state of mind is not helped by the news spewing out of Washington and Des Moines many days.

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Thank You: IowaWatch Fund Drive Draws $19,000 Matching Grant

By IowaWatch | January 26, 2018

Thanks to 179 generous donors The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism – Iowa Watch was able to raise $21,214 during its end-of-year News Match fund drive. Of that total, $19,021 was matched by the Fund for Nonprofit News at The Miami Foundation. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Democracy Fund, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation provided funds for the News Match drive for Institute for Nonprofit News members. IowaWatch is a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News, a consortium of nonprofit news organizations in the United States that, for this drive, provided fund-raising training and support. [Ed note: This paragraph was updated March 13, 2018, to reflect IowaWatch’s receipt of the News Match funds.]

The grant will be used to fund news reporting.

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A News Match Letter From IowaWatch Co-Founder Steve Berry

By Stephen J. Berry | December 5, 2017

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.

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The IowaWatch Connection, a weekly, statewide news and public affairs radio program airs on participating stations across Iowa. The program is sponsored by AARP Iowa:

Looking Back At The Iowa Caucus —

It's been a month since Iowans caucused. How do Iowa's results look now that more than a quarter of the country has indicated its presidential preference?

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Investigative Reporting in Iowa

Bonuses going to governor’s appointees

Several state department heads and other appointed employees in Iowa are getting bonuses, some pushing the recipient's salaries beyond what the governor makes, The Register reports.

Source: Des Moines Register

Felons caught voting in Iowa often go unpunished

Only a few felons illegally casting ballots in recent Iowa elections have been prosecuted, the Des Moines Register reports in another installment of its investigation into felony voting rights.

Source: Des Moines Register

U of I Fraternities Continued Wild Drinking Parties Off Campus

University of Iowa fraternities under fire for hosting parties where alcohol abuse takes place tried moving wild parties off campus but were caught by Iowa City police working in concert with U of I administrators.

Source: The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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