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Beth Dalbey, a longtime award-winning community journalist, is Patch’s national editor. She has been with Patch since 2011 when she launched sites in Iowa and provided national Iowa Caucus and swing-state general election coverage. She worked as a regional manager before moving to the national desk in 2017. Throughout her time at Patch, she has reported and written about local topics of national interest and is currently focusing on exclusive Patch content, including Block Talk, an only-on-Patch neighborhood etiquette column for which readers supply advice.
Dalbey and the newspapers she has edited have earned numerous awards for news, feature and government coverage, editorial and column writing, and overall general excellence from the Iowa Newspaper Association, the National Newspaper Association and the Associated Press Media Editors. In 1992 in Iowa, she led the weekly Dallas County News to win the INA's prestigious Newspaper of the Year award, competing against metro newspapers many times its size. She was the youngest recipient ever of the INA’s Distinguished Service Award in 1994. At Patch, she received the Todd Richissin Award for Excellence in Reporting and Writing for the “Menace of Bullies” project.
In Iowa, Dalbey’s byline has also appeared in the Fairfield Daily Ledger, where she was editor for five years; and in the Des Moines Business Record, Cityview, dsm magazine and other publications under the umbrella of Business Publications Corp., where she was the editorial director for several years. Dalbey also freelanced for the Des Moines Register and other print and digital publications
Dalbey grew up in Missouri and majored in journalism at Northwest Missouri State University. Except for a three-year stint as communications editor for a scientific institute doing ape language research, she has spent her entire career in community journalism. At the former Great Ape Trust of Iowa, she wrote about the world-famous resident bonobos Kanzi and Panbanisha.
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Twitter said Thursday it was resolving the issues after multiple reports from users around the world who couldn't connect to the platform.
The taco analogy “demonstrates a lack of cultural knowledge and sensitivity to the diversity of Latinos,” Hispanic journalists say.
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Emphasizing policy hasn’t changed, Biden administration reminds doctors and health care providers of their obligations under federal law.
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“One law is saying that this is a baby and now he's telling me this baby that's jabbing my ribs is not a baby,” she said of unusual defense.
The switch to a simplified, three-digit number is aimed at increasing accessibility to hotline services as suicides increase nationwide.
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Patch readers say the best gifts from neighbors don’t cost a lot — or anything at all. And new moms may not want what you think they do.
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Omicron coronavirus subvariant BA.5, responsible for more than half of new COVID-19 cases, prompts FDA call for targeted vaccine boosters.
Email account compromises cost U.S. corporations more than $7.5 billion from 2017-2021, according to a new analysis of FBI cybercrime data.
Climate change is causing more dangerously hot days, a worsening of drought conditions, more wildfires and more hurricanes, report shows.
