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The Tribune, which merged with the rival Des Moines News in 1924 and the Des Moines Capital in 1927, served as the evening paper for the Des Moines area until it ended publication on September 25, 1982). Under the ownership of the Cowles family, the Register became Iowa's largest and most influential newspaper, eventually adopting the slogan ...
Camera film was flown on the Good News back to Des Moines to be developed for the morning Register. The same year Look was born, an 804-foot-long airship filled with hydrogen burst into flames and ...
Many skilled editors have led the Des Moines Register throughout its 175-year history, in the top role and as leaders of key departments. One top editor stands apart from all others in sheer ...
Website. www.dmgov.org. Des Moines (/ dəˈmɔɪn / ⓘ də-MOYN) is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is the county seat of Polk County with parts extending into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines, which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857. 6 It is located on, and named ...
RAGBRAI began in 1973, when Des Moines Register feature writers John Karras and Donald Kaul decided to go on a bicycle ride across Iowa; both men were avid cyclists. Karras challenged Kaul to do the ride and write articles about what he experienced. Kaul agreed to do it, but only if Karras also did the ride. Karras then agreed to ride, as well.
George Bede Irvin was a Des Moines native who played football in high school, attended the University of Iowa and Drake University and was a photographer for the Register and Tribune.
Alma mater. University of Kansas (BA) Occupation. Chief Politics Reporter at The Des Moines Register. Brianne Pfannenstiel (born 1988) is an American journalist who is the chief politics reporter for The Des Moines Register. Pfannenstiel co-moderated the seventh Democratic debate with Wolf Blitzer and Abby Phillip on January 14, 2020. [1]
Born in Burnside, Iowa on April 16, 1921, to Margaret and Raymond E. Mollenhoff, Clark R. Mollenhoff graduated from high school in Webster City, Iowa. He began working for The Des Moines Register in 1942 while attending Drake University law school, from which he graduated in 1944.