2025 Iowa Better Newspaper Contests

Coverage of Agriculture ( Class V) Back

  • Place Name: First Place
    Contestant Name: Iowa City - The Daily Iowan
    Entry Title: Coverage of Agriculture – Daily Iowan
    Entry Credit: Staff
    Judge Comment: These stories did a really good job of telling the reader, very broadly, and intricately about the impact of agriculture on the lives of not only people living in these communities but elsewhere.
  • Place Name: Second Place
    Contestant Name: Dubuque - Telegraph Herald
    Entry Title: Telegraph Herald coverage of agriculture
    Entry Credit: Staff
    Judge Comment: The land scarcity pieces were really interesting because it was a look at Agriculture I was not expecting.
  • Place Name: Third Place
    Contestant Name: Des Moines - Des Moines Register
    Entry Title: Donnelle Eller's agriculture coverage
    Entry Credit: Donnelle Eller
    Judge Comment: A nice collection of stories. And again allowing the voices of the people impacted here to come through.