Des Moines Register Cuts Ties With Reporter Who Dug Up Old Tweets of Charity Giver

Carson King, who raised more than $1 million for an Iowa children's hospital. A Des Moines Register reporter who dug up tweets King posted eight years ago, when he was 16, is no longer with the Register, the Iowa paper said. Carson King/Twitter

A reporter who dug up tweets posted eight years ago while writing a profile on a man who was responsible for over $1 million in charity no longer works for the Des Moines Register, the Iowa paper announced late Sept. 26.

Aaron Calvin, the reporter, was researching a profile on Carson King, 24—a University of Iowa fan who raised over $1 million for the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital after he created a unique sign for a Sept. 13 Iowa State game—when he came across two tweets King wrote when he was 16.