Brendan Hoffman will be a featured speaker at the Iowa Newspaper Association’s 2020 Convention, where he will discuss his long-term work in Webster City, The Beating of the Heart. Hoffman has most recently expanded the project through a unique partnership with the city’s local newspaper, the Daily Freeman-Journal, which is Iowa’s smallest daily print newspaper, with funding from the Magnum Foundation, Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and Yunghi Grant.