WASHINGTON – States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization, today launches “THE DECIDERS: 7 States + 5 Issues That Will Swing the 2024 Election. The series explores the priorities that voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are weighing as they consider the upcoming presidential election and the nation’s future.

This collection of reporting by States Newsroom journalists across the country includes six stories, which began publishing this week. All stories are accessible with no paywall and available for republishing at no cost:

• Monday, Sept. 23: OVERVIEW of what will make the difference in this ultra-tight presidential race. BYLINE: Kevin Hardy, Stateline
• Tuesday, Sept. 24: How state legislative changes in VOTING LAWS since 2020 are impacting who can vote and how ballots are counted. BYLINE: Matt Vasilogambros, Stateline
• Wednesday, Sept. 25: The ECONOMY and how perceptions about inflation are shading voter sentiment. BYLINE: Kevin Hardy, Statline and Casey Quinlan, States Newsroom / And a look at the role of ORGANIZED LABOR in the political machinery of key states. BYLINE: Eric Gunn, Wisconsin Examiner
• Thursday, Sept. 26: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS is playing out differently in each state as many wrestle with ballot initiatives and other legislative action. BYLINE: Sofia Resnick, States Newsroom
• Friday, Sept. 27: IMMIGRATION, an election season talking point for years, could tip the 2024 vote. BYLINE: Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror

“While these issues have dominated the national conversation, they have been playing out in state legislatures which are shaping new laws that have intensified the partisan divide,” Editorial Director Andrea Shaw said. “This series expands the daily reporting of States Newsroom journalists, examining how these issues will affect voting in seven swing states, which historically have been a bellwether for the rest of the country.”

States Newsroom stories may be republished online or in print under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please see specific republishing guidelines on each state newsroom website.

MEDIA AVAILABILITY: States Newsroom has more on-the-ground reporting expertise in all state capitals than any other news organization. The editors and reporters of THE DECIDERS are available to talk about what they are finding in the states they cover and how it connects to the larger national story of the 2024 election.

• Matt Vasilogambros, [email protected]
• Kevin Hardy, [email protected]
• Casey Quinlan, [email protected]
• Eric Gunn, [email protected]
• Sofia Resnick, [email protected]
• Gloria Rebecca Gomez, [email protected]
• Andrea Shaw, [email protected]

About States Newsroom

States Newsroom is the nation’s largest nonprofit news organization. We shine a light on policy and politics in state capitals around the nation and we provide that coverage for free, no pop-ups, paywalls or ads. In an era of rampant disinformation and news deserts, we provide nonpartisan coverage of the state issues that most affect people’s daily lives.

Leading studies cite States Newsroom as key to filling the void in coverage left by staffing cuts at legacy media outlets. According to one study, the overall percentage of reporters working for nonprofit newsrooms in the statehouse press corps has more than tripled since 2014 and now makes up the largest portion of statehouse reporters in 10 states and the second largest in 17 states.

We run — or partner with — news outlets in all 50 state capitals.

We fully fund newsrooms in 39 states, each with its own website. They are:

Alabama Reflector – alabamareflector.com
Alaska Beacon – alaskabeacon.com
Arizona Mirror – azmirror.com
Arkansas Advocate – arkansasadvocate.com
Colorado Newsline – coloradonewsline.com
Florida Phoenix – floridaphoenix.com
Georgia Recorder – georgiarecorder.com
Idaho Capital Sun – idahocapitalsun.com
Indiana Capital Chronicle – indianacapitalchronicle.com
Iowa Capital Dispatch – iowacapitaldispatch.com
Kansas Reflector – kansasreflector.com
Kentucky Lantern – kentuckylantern.com
Louisiana Illuminator – lailluminator.com
Maine Morning Star – mainemorningstar.com
Maryland Matters – marylandmatters.org
Michigan Advance – michiganadvance.com
Minnesota Reformer – minnesotareformer.com
Missouri Independent – missouriindependent.com
Daily Montanan – dailymontanan.com
Nebraska Examiner – nebraskaexaminer.com
Nevada Current – nevadacurrent.com
New Hampshire Bulletin – newhampshirebulletin.com
New Jersey Monitor – newjerseymonitor.com
Source New Mexico – sourcenm.com
NC Newsline – ncnewsline.com
North Dakota Monitor – northdakotamonitor.com
Ohio Capital Journal – ohiocapitaljournal.com
Oklahoma Voice – oklahomavoice.com
Oregon Capital Chronicle – oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Pennsylvania Capital-Star – penncapital-star.com
Rhode Island Current – rhodeislandcurrent.com
South Carolina Daily Gazette – scdailygazette.com
South Dakota Searchlight – southdakotasearchlight.com
Stateline – stateline.org
Tennessee Lookout – tennesseelookout.com
Utah News Dispatch – utahnewsdispatch.com
Virginia Mercury – virginiamercury.com
Washington State Standard – washingtonstatestandard.com
West Virginia Watch – westvirginiawatch.com
Wisconsin Examiner – wisconsinexaminer.com

States Newsroom also has content-sharing agreements with 11 leading nonprofit newsrooms: CalMatters (California), Connecticut Mirror, Spotlight Delaware, Honolulu Civil Beat, Capitol News Illinois, CommonWealth Beacon (Massachusetts), Mississippi Today, New York Focus, The Texas Tribune, VTDigger (Vermont), and WyoFile (Wyoming).

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