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# IowaWatch added to CJR News Frontier Database
- URL: https://www.investigatemidwest.org/iowawatch-added-to-cjr-news-frontier-database/
- Published: 2011-08-10T21:41:37.000Z
- Updated: 2011-08-10T21:41:37.000Z
- Author: IowaWatch staff
- Tags: Investigate Midwest News, iowawatch, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-06-18 04:56

*Columbia Journalism Review* today announced that The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch has become the newest member of its online News Frontier Database.

In making the announcement, CJR wrote a 1,000-word online profile story about IowaWatch entitled “Investigative Reporting for the Hawkeye State.”

This is the second professional journal that IowaWatch has appeared in, the first being the *American Journalism Review*.

“I think being included in the database is extremely important for IowaWatch, because it establishes our presence on the national landscape,” Stephen J. Berry, IowaWatch’s interim executive-editor, said.

The database provides documentation of original reporting and stories from the “digital news terrain” across the country.

According to its website, each digital news agency is given a profile detailing business operations, anecdotes, stories from the past, future plans, commentary and critique and the “war” stories of the agency’s interviewee, along with various other statistics.

“It is a tremendous service to journalism, because it provides such a valuable source of information to journalists and to people who study journalism and the media,” Berry said. “Hat’s off to CJR.”

The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch is an independent, nonpartisan news service incorporated in Iowa in February 2010 and recognized by the as a non-profit organization under IRS Code 501 (c)(3).

Media Contact: Ryan Roccaforte, (563) 209-4684, ryan-roccaforte@uiowa.edu