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With your help, we’ve achieved some important milestones:

We topped 3 million pageviews this year, nearly a 20% increase over 2021.

Pageviews are only a fraction of our reach, however, because we have continued to share our high-quality content to community newspapers and news outlets at no cost. We shared more than 3,700 stories this year, and nearly 20% more in the past six months than the previous six. We are helping to strengthen community news operations, allowing them to focus on important news in their communities.

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We are proud of our progress, but we need your help to grow even more in 2023. Iowa Capital Dispatch has been chosen as a Report for America newsroom, allowing us to add a full-time reporter this spring. Report for America, a national non-profit organization, will pay half the salary in the first year for a reporter to cover higher education in Iowa. It will be up to Iowa Capital Dispatch and our parent organization, States Newsroom, to raise the rest of the cost for salary and benefits this year and a higher share in the coming years.

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2022 highlights

Here are some of our top stories from 2022:

Restaurant update: Flies in the cheese, ants in the sugar and moldy ribs: Our monthly restaurant inspection stories are our most-read articles.
Commentary: Silly school litter box rumors front a darker agenda
Six Iowa nursing homes run by one company are fined for abuse and neglect
Iowa man fights to save his hunting preserve

Thanks again!

Kathie Obradovich, editor
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