UI journalists launch independent investigative news outlet

[cyberswede]

UI journalists launch independent investigative news outlet, IowaWatch.org

A University of Iowa professor and student journalists are launching the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that will publish investigative and explanatory reports at http://www.IowaWatch.org.

IowaWatch will be modeled after nonprofits like ProPublica or The Center for Public Integrity, but will focus on in-depth coverage of local and state issues."

Read the rest: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2010/june/060210iowa-watch.html

[Bluzmann57]

1. Lets hope they are really fair and balanced.

Hopefully they will presnt all sides of the story and just let we the public decide our stances on issues. An organization like this is way overdue, in my opinion.

[rurallib]

2. Well once again I have hope, knowing that facts seem to have a liberal bias

We can always hope. But I fear if they do their job the wingers in Des Moines will be crying and moaning about the 'librul university.'