Josie Fischels
Arts & Culture ReporterExpertise: Performance art, visual art, Iowa life
Education: The University of Iowa
Favorite Iowa Destination: Dunnings Springs, Decorah
Experience:
- Covered local and statewide arts, news, and lifestyle features for The Daily Iowan, The Denver Post, NPR and currently for IPR
- Has written features on Iowans participating in the Hollywood writers’ strike, the nation’s largest historic theatre backdrop collection – housed in Iowa, the reopening of the African American Museum of Iowa and an ‘inside-the-culture’ feature on local drag kings, among others
- Is an award-winning reporter, including a retrospective of Iowa’s first poet laureate, Marvin Bell, following his death in 2021
- Writes regularly for IPR’s internationally award-winning newsletters
- Covered the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, climate and the Kabul takeover by the Taliban in 2021 for NPR’s news desk
- Served as an editor and mentor for multiple projects with NPR’s Next Generation Radio
- Created IPR’s weekly news quiz and launched IPR’s TikTok (follow us!)
Stories by Josie Fischels
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This week's quiz covers news published between Jan. 29 and Feb. 2. Good luck! -
This quiz covers news published between Jan. 22 and Jan. 26. Think you've got what it takes? -
What does it really mean to be a woman? With the ever-changing roles, rights and identities of women in society, there are as many answers to that question as there are women in the world. We asked different women across the state share what womanhood means to them today. -
This week's quiz covers news published on IPR between Jan. 15 (the Iowa caucuses!) and Jan. 19. Think you got what it takes? -
This week's quiz covers news published on IPR between Jan. 8 and Jan. 12. Be sure to check our liveblog and special legislative coverage before you start!
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Iowa Public Radio offers background on the Iowa caucuses — what they are, why they matter, how they’ve changed for the 2024 race and how Iowans are participating. -
Get ready to reach back a bit — this quiz covers news published in our liveblog between Dec. 30 and Jan. 5. Go ahead and take a look back — we won't judge!
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Police have identified the shooter at Perry High School as 17-year-old Dylan Butler, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was a Perry High School student. -
We're back! This week's quiz covers news published in our liveblog between Dec. 27 and Dec. 29. Take a moment if you need to catch up, then let's dive in!
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This quiz covers news published in our daily liveblog between Dec. 11 and Dec. 15. Let's go!
