PERSON: Kathie Obradovich

Iowa Capital Dispatch

Editor in Chief

Kathie Obradovich is editor-in-chief for Iowa Capital Dispatch, part of a national not-for-profit news organization. She leads an experienced staff covering state news and politics and writes a weekly column. Since the Iowa site launched in January 2020, more than a dozen Iowa newspapers and news sites have begun regularly publishing Iowa Capital Dispatch content.

Obradovich has more than 30 years of reporting experience in Iowa. She worked for 16 years at the Des Moines Register, most recently as opinion editor and political columnist. Between 1987 and 2003, she worked as a reporter and editor in the Des Moines Bureau for the Lee Enterprises newspapers in Iowa and at the Quad-City City Times in Davenport. She has been a regular reporter on Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press” and a frequent guest on other state, national and international news programs. She has served as a lecturer for Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication. She’s an Iowa State graduate who grew up in Ames.

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