Daily Iowan Backstory

10/31/2024

Hello Alums:
We have a talented writer on our News team (English major) hoping to start networking with professionals in the publishing field in order to explore options for next summer and after graduation.

Please send us a direct message or comment below if you are able to help! Appreciate you all - thanks!

10/29/2024

How many of you follow our DI podcasting team? Last year, now DI alum Natalie Dunlap took her podcasting talent to IPR after helping us grow that section of our newsroom. Here's our latest "Above the Fold", in which DI journalists Madeleine Willis and Evan Watson explore the economic ramifications of the downtown Dubuque Street reconstruction project on local business :

Dubuque Street businesses were celebrated last week with a block party two months after the $3.25 million construction concluded. The street was closed from March through August. Daily Iowan News Reporter Evan Watson attended the block party. Watson is a second-year student at the University of Iowa...

03/23/2024

We are so sorry to share this news. Tom Walsh was the editor of the Daily Iowan in 1971/72. Tom made so many positive contributions to the Daily Iowan; he reminded Jen Wagner several times that he liked to be best remembered for coming up with the DI slogan: "If it happens, it's news to us."

Thomas C. Walsh Rochester, MN Thomas Charles Walsh, 73, of Rochester, MN, a proud son of his Irish heritage, passed …