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More than 75 Lee Enterprises newspapers affected by cyberattack

Incident Details

Updated on: February 27, 2025
Date of incident: February 3, 2025
Location: Davenport, Iowa
Targets: Lee Enterprises

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Iowa media outlets, nonprofit settle open records suit with governor’s office

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Date of incident: June 21, 2023
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Targets: Bleeding Heartland, Iowa Capital Dispatch

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Iowa man convicted for threatening meteorologist, who later left TV news

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 10, 2022
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Targets: Chris Gloninger (KCCI)

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Outlets sue after media barred from attending Iowa school board meeting

Incident Details

Updated on: June 8, 2023
Date of incident: May 25, 2022
Location: Bettendorf, Iowa
Case number: 07821 EQCE135211
Targets: Josh Lamberty (WQAD-TV), KWQC-TV, Quad-City Times, WHBF-TV, WQAD-TV
Case status: Settled
Type of case: Civil

Government agency or public official involved →: Local government: Public school district
Type of denial →: Government event

Journalists removed from Iowa Senate floor, overturning a century-old practice

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 7, 2022
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Targets: Media

Government agency or public official involved →: State government: Legislature
Type of denial →: Change in policy or practice

Iowa judge seizes memory card from student photojournalist for violating court rules during murder trial

Incident Details

Date of incident: May 21, 2021
Location: Davenport, Iowa
Targets: Unidentified photojournalist 12 (The Daily Iowan)

Equipment searched or seized →: Storage device, 1
Status of equipment →: Unknown
Search warrant obtained →: No

Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reporter hit while covering protests in Iowa

Incident Details

Updated on: October 19, 2020
Date of incident: June 2, 2020
Location: Waterloo, Iowa
Targets: Jeff Reinitz (The [Waterloo-Cedar Falls] Courier)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Des Moines Register reporter hit with pepper spray in face after repeatedly identifying as press

Incident Details

Date of incident: June 1, 2020
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Targets: Katie Akin (The Des Moines Register)

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

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