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The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan news service and we are the preeminent Iowa organization for training current and future investigative journalists. We are committed to increasing the demand for and understanding of vetted, verified journalism.
We depend on your generosity to maintain and develop current programs working with colleges, universities and high schools, and the local Iowa community in an effort to train future investigative journalists and encourage a well-informed public, productive public discourse, and, therefore, a strong democracy.
In the past year, donations have supported student internships, high-school and college journalists, live storytelling events, public forums and more.
Daphne Patton of Iowa City speaks during a live storytelling event at Iowa Writers' House in Iowa City that served as a fundraiser for Iowa Writers' House and IowaWatch on Nov. 30, 2017.
IowaWatch co-founder and board member Stephen Berry (center) talks with fellow board member Lisa Rossi (left) and Michael Rossi at a reception before the 2018 Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet in Des Moines on Sept. 27, 2018.
Interviewed by IowaWatch reporter Matthew McDermott at Iowa City's Hamburg Inn No. 2 on July 9, 2018. The Hamburg Inn restaurant has been known for attracting politicians during campaigns ever since former Ronald Reagan stopped there in 1992 after his terms at president ended for lunch. Other former presidents who have gone there are Bill Clinton and, while campaigning for his first presidential term, Barack Obama.
Issues raised at the diversity forum included relatively small enrollment numbers for African American and Latino students, having funding for programs that promote diversity, helping students from culturally diverse cities undergo general cultural change and needing more minority faculty.
Members of the 2018 IowaWatch/Cedar Falls High SchoolTiger Hi-Line reporting project with Science in the Media. Left to right, front row, are Sabine Martin, Rachel Schmid and Sophia Schillinger. Back row: Tiger Hi-Line teacher Brian Winkel, Ben Boezinger, IowaWatch executive director-editor Lyle Muller, Chase Kline, Saba Aydiner and University of Northern Iowa communication studies and digital journalism professor Christopher Martin. This photo was taken June 1, 2018, the day the students' reporting project was reported.
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