The IowaWatch Connection radio program collected eight awards for large market radio reporting during 2017 at the annual Iowa Broadcast News Association convention in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, April 21.

Jeff Stein, IowaWatch Connection host/producer

Each week, program host and producer Jeff Stein and IowaWatch reporters examine a story in depth during a 23-minute program that airs on 20 radio stations and then serves as an IowaWatch.org podcast.

The program’s winning entries were:

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The IowaWatch Connection is a statewide audience engagement program launched as a pilot in July 2014 with a $25,000 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation grant awarded through the Investigative News Network (now the Institute for Nonprofit News). It is to air its 200th episode this coming weekend, on April 27-29.

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