States Newsroom
American nonprofit news publisher
States Newsroom is a nonprofit news network in the United States. It has news organizations in 39 U.S. states and newsrooms in all 50 state capitals through partnerships, focusing primarily on state politics. States Newsroom grew out of NC Policy Watch, a progressive think tank founded in 2004 by Chris Fitzsimon, who is its current president. In 2017, the project expanded, using the liberal group the Hopewell Fund as an incubator. In 2019, States Newsroom became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
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States Newsroom provides funding, human resources, and digital support to journalists in the state newsrooms. It typically has four to six journalists per newsroom and allows its articles to be republished for free under a Creative Commons license. States Newsroom accepts no corporate donations and has publicly shared the names of all donors contributing $1,000 or more since becoming a 501(c)(3) in 2019. The progressive Wyss Foundation gave $1 million to States Newsroom in 2020.
States Newsroom's commentary and opinion pieces are clearly-labeled and generally lean left.
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