Bailey Cichon
Bailey Cichon connects Iowa politics to everyday life by pairing explainer reporting with digital production that follows questions from residents and the decisions of people in power. She focuses on how the state works, from local institutions and civic systems to campaigns and legislative debates, and turns that material into accessible stories, videos and podcasts. Her work at The Gazette centers on Curious Iowa and the On Iowa Politics podcast, giving her coverage a mix of ground-level curiosity and structured political analysis.
Curious Iowa and reader questions
Cichon writes for Curious Iowa, a series at The Gazette that answers readers’ questions about the state and how it works. The franchise is built around specific, practical questions rather than abstract issues, such as tracing how long a local ice cream shop has been part of Cedar Rapids and what that says about the community around it.
Across the series she returns to institutional history, rules and processes, using individual queries as an entry point into how public and private systems operate. Her reporting is framed to resolve a discrete question in each installment, with clear explanations and a focus on verification rather than commentary.
This approach keeps politics present as a backdrop - through regulations, local governance and public decisions - even when the starting point is a seemingly simple curiosity about a business or neighborhood fixture.
On Iowa Politics podcast production
Cichon produces the On Iowa Politics podcast, a weekly news and analysis program that brings together political reporters to talk through Iowa’s key issues at the end of the news day. Episodes she produces track the campaign trail and the Capitol, including detailed discussions of state campaign fundraising reports, property tax proposals and school budget debates. The show also covers visits by national figures such as a sitting president, tying those events to local electoral dynamics and future races.
Under her production, the podcast follows both routine and inflection points in Iowa politics: the start of legislative sessions, competing property tax plans, pipeline eminent domain bills, special elections and internal party strategy over caucuses and nominating processes.
Her role is to shape these conversations into structured episodes, maintaining a rhythm that allows reporters to move from technical detail - budgets, flags on property taxes, landowner rights - to broader implications for voters and communities. In longer-form political interviews, including one-on-one conversations with statewide candidates, her production credits mark work on episodes that dig into individual records, policy priorities and campaign strategy.
Taken together, the podcast work shows a consistent focus on making complex political developments legible to an audience that follows state and local government closely.
Video storytelling on Iowa culture and institutions
Beyond the podcast and Curious Iowa, Cichon produces news and feature videos that highlight cultural events and public institutions across the state. Her pieces include coverage of Iowa’s longest-running science fiction convention, using video to capture the atmosphere of a niche but long-standing community gathering.
She has also produced video features on arts and heritage, such as a look at a major University of Iowa art collection installation, introducing viewers to the exhibition while connecting it to the broader story of the institution.
These projects share a straightforward visual style that emphasizes scenes, participants and organizers rather than personality-driven narration. The subject matter ranges from fandom and local conventions to museum programming and campus life, but her treatment keeps attention on how these events reflect wider patterns in Iowa’s culture and public spaces.
In this part of her portfolio, politics moves to the background while civic life and community institutions stay central.
Features and recognition
Cichon adds occasional written features to her video and podcast work, including travel writing that follows Iowans and their connections abroad. In one piece she chronicles a trip to Albania built around attending an international wrestling championship, blending personal observation with attention to the event and its stakes.
These features keep the same clear, descriptive tone as her state-focused work, and they extend her range beyond politics into lifestyle and human-interest storytelling. Within The Gazette, she has been recognized for work on Curious Iowa and other features, including video storytelling, reflecting a track record of engaging, audience-facing coverage.
Across formats, her work is consistent: start from a concrete question or event, report out the context with precision, and present it in a way that makes institutional detail and political or cultural stakes easy to follow.
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