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# IowaWatch Honored For Exchanging Ideas With International Journalists
- URL: https://www.investigatemidwest.org/iowawatch-honored-for-exchanging-ideas-with-international-journalists/
- Published: 2019-04-17T03:05:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T02:38:40.000Z
- Author: IowaWatch
- Tags: Investigate Midwest News, iowawatch, CIVIC, diplomacy, international affairs, Iowa, Journalism, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-06-18 04:56

The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism was one of three 2018 Citizen Diplomat Award recipients honored the night of April 16 by the [Council for International Visitors to Iowa Cities](https://iowacivic.org/?ref=investigatemidwest.org), or CIVIC.

The other award recipients were Diamond V of Cedar Rapids, for business and industry, and Johnson County Supervisor Lisa Green-Douglass as an individual. They received the awards at CIVIC’s Fourth Annual Celebration of Citizen Diplomacy Dinner in Iowa City.

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IowaWatch executive director-editor Lyle Muller receives a citizens’ diplomat award from the Center for Iowa Visitors to International Cities (CIVIC) in Iowa City the night of April 16, 2019\. / IowaWatch executive director-editor Lyle Muller receives a citizens’ diplomat award from the Center for Iowa Visitors to International Cities (CIVIC) in Iowa City the night of April 16, 2019.

The center, which runs [IowaWatch.org](https://investigatemidwest.org/?ref=investigatemidwest.org), was cited for its work as a nonprofit organization because of the several years it has met with international journalists CIVIC brings to Iowa on U.S. visits that bring them to Iowa.

The non-profit CIVIC is a community-based, member-driven organization established to create, support and sustain citizen diplomacy efforts in the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids area of Eastern Iowa.

ABC news correspondent Lana Zak was the event’s keynote speaker.

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Journalists from Kyrgyzstan meet with IowaWatch staffers Lyle Muller and Lauren Wade on Dec. 6, 2018, in Iowa City. The international journalists were interested in how the nonprofit IowaWatch works.