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Nixson Benitez

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  • Founder and Secretary, Iowa Association of Black Journalists
  • Social Media Producer, Des Moines Register
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Nixson Benitez’s Biography

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I currently work as the Executive Editor for the Northern Iowan. I am the founder of the Spanish Column and Black Journalist chapter in Iowa. My next career goal is to be an editor at a publication!

I can reconfigure factual information or data in ways that reveal trends, raise issues, identify opportunities, or offer solutions. I like to provide multiple action plans to provide a variety of ways in which tasks can be tackled. Especially in working in a team, I appreciate what every individual …

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Temu sales practices targeted by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird

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By Nixson Benitez
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Temu sales practices targeted by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird Mon, July 6, 2026 at 8:50 PM UTC Temu sales practices targeted by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird Temu, the China-based online marketplace, is being sued by Iowa Attorney General Bird under Iowa's consumer protection act.
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9 Valentine's Day card ideas and memes that every Iowan in your life will love

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By Paris Barraza Verified, Victoria Reyna-Rodriguez Verified, Nixson Benitez
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Be mine? Boring. Happy Valentine’s Day? Generic. You’re in every CORNer of my heart? Now we’re talking. Spice up your Valentine’s Day cards and phrases this year that every Iowan in your life is sure to love, or at least roll their eye at. Here are nine Valentine’s Day sayings that the Des Moines Register staff thought up so that you could make the people you love smile.
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Iowan competes in Netflix's highly-anticipated 'Squid Game: The Challenge' reality show

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By Nixson Benitez
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Deandre “SipTheKid” Smith, 32, also known as Player 181, saw an advertisement in the summer of 2022 that Netflix was doing a wide casting call for “Squid Game: The Challenge.” After confirming that the casting call was real, the actor applied. Smith, who has also been a part of “You Bet Your Life with Jay Leno,” got a call on the day before Christmas that same year. “When I picked up the phone, they were so dramatic with it.
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