It's a known fact that Iowa has always had pesticides and over time our water has become polluted, but nothing holds a candle to the recent discovery of Iowa water actively speeding up cancer, in even...

My name is Jasper Cain Juguilon Murphy, I am 22, getting two majors in Psychology and French with a minor in Linguistics, and I am the Tech Director of DITV. I have been working at DITV for the past 3.5...

In my brief time at The Daily Iowan, I know that things will never be the same as they were before I became a photojournalist. Embarrassingly, one of the first memories of being a photojournalist for...

I started at The Daily Iowan in the spring of 2024 as a second-year cinema student that just wanted to get a job that put a camera in my hands. I had no expectations of what photojournalism, or even photography...

There exists within me a great contradiction. I’m a student journalist, but I’m deeply uncomfortable inconveniencing others. I’m reserved and introverted by nature, but over the past three years...

I remember the exact moment I decided I wanted to write for a living. My sixth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Dunscomb, wrote on one of my assignments: “You should be a writer.” But it was more than...

For the last three years, I’ve written hundreds of stories about other people — their journey, their highlights, and their triumphs. I’m extremely proud of the work I’ve done throughout my college...

I can’t remember why I scanned a QR code on the first floor of the Adler Journalism Building to join The Daily Iowan arts section in March 2023, but it feels like something I was always meant to do in...

This goodbye comes a year sooner than I had marked in my color-coded calendar. Yet, I feel that is very fitting as this year, this role, this time at The Daily Iowan has been nothing like what I planned...

Telling other people’s stories is difficult enough. Where do I even start with my own? I’ve always said I write better than I talk, and in terms of sports, the two I’m best at are bowling and disc...

At the end of my freshman year at the University of Iowa, I read all of the senior columns from all the dearly departed seniors at The Daily Iowan. Because I was but a lowly freshman city council...

DITV is more than I could have ever asked for in a college experience. It is what led me to my dream job. I still remember walking into orientation unsure of what DITV would be for me. I did not know...