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# Podcast: KXIC Interview About IowaWatch Story About Iowa's Texting-While-Driving Laws
- URL: https://www.investigatemidwest.org/podcast-kxic-interview-about-iowawatch-story-about-iowas-texting-while-driving-laws/
- Published: 2014-12-17T14:29:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T02:39:54.000Z
- Description: KXIC radio's "Your Town' host Jay Capron talked with IowaWatch's Sarah Hadley about reporting she has done on the failure of Iowa's texting-while-driving laws to reduce traffic accidents significantly, and executive director Lyle Muller about IowaWatch in general.
- Author: IowaWatch
- Tags: Blog, Investigate Midwest News, iowawatch, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-06-18 04:56

IowaWatch reporter and assistant editor Sarah Hadley and executive director-editor Lyle Muller were the guests on the Tuesday, Dec. 16, “Your Town” show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City.

[![IowaWatch reporter Sarah Hadley receives the 2014 IowaWatch/Fotini Perlmutter Undergraduate Student Award from Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller on Oct. 2, 2014.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cd/d3/cdd3c059-8898-40b1-bcf7-cb2d3aa89775/content/images/2026/09/Hadley.jpg)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cd/d3/cdd3c059-8898-40b1-bcf7-cb2d3aa89775/content/images/2026/09/Hadley.jpg?ref=investigatemidwest.org)

IowaWatch reporter Sarah Hadley receives the 2014 IowaWatch/Fotini Perlmutter Undergraduate Student Award from Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller on Oct. 2, 2014.

Host Jay Capron talked with Hadley, a University of Iowa senior, about reporting she has done on the failure of Iowa’s texting-while-driving laws to reduce traffic accidents significantly. Her reporting includes[ a multimedia report ](https://investigatemidwest.org/iowas-texting-while-driving-ban-not-reducing-crashes-hard-to-enforce/?ref=investigatemidwest.org)and [a video report](https://investigatemidwest.org/video-report-iowas-texting-while-driving-ban-hard-to-enforce/?ref=investigatemidwest.org). Muller talked about IowaWatch’s [News Quiz](https://investigatemidwest.org/?ref=investigatemidwest.org) feature, which Capron used in a segment following IowaWatch’s, and other stories planned by the non-profit news organization.

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