Emily Blobaum has been named editor of Fearless, a project of the Business Record in Des Moines.
Fearless focuses on women’s and gender issues.
Blobaum started working a few days a week at the Business Record a year ago to help out with a handful of special projects.
She is from Des Moines and graduated from Roosevelt High School. She graduated with a degree in journalism and mass communication from Iowa State in 2018, where she worked in several different positions at the award-winning student newspaper, the Iowa State Daily.
She had worked as a photo intern at the Guthrie County Times and Lincoln Journal Star and most recently was an assistant producer for Iowa PBS’ Emmy-nominated documentary, “Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women.”
