WASHINGTON, D.C. — States Newsroom has announced the launch Wednesday, May 6, of Daybreak, a daily national newsletter designed for subscribers who want to start each morning informed, particularly about how state news fits into the national news cycle. It will complement the popular Evening Wrap newsletter.
“We’re living in a nonstop news cycle, where the public is looking for a trusted source to make sense of it all,” said Andrea Shaw, chief content officer for States Newsroom. “With a morning eye-opener and an evening wrapup, we’ll help our readers focus on the issues most likely to affect their lives. And more and more, those issues are unfolding at the state level.”
Madyson Fitzgerald, national content producer, will write Daybreak, bringing the same voice and tone she developed authoring Stateline Daily, which will end with this launch. She joins a newly formed National Content Team led by Danielle Gaines, senior national newsletter author. Carol Johnson, national newsletter editor, will produce Daybreak.
Readers can subscribe for free here.
Daybreak joins a suite of national newsletters published by States Newsroom, the nation’s largest nonprofit state-focused news organization. Other newsletters include Evening Wrap, The Rundown and This Week in Commentary, as well as Reproductive Rights Today, which is shifting to twice weekly. Each of States Newsroom’s 39 state outlets also offer daily and weekly newsletters. All of States Newsroom’s newsletters are free.
While other news organizations are reducing or eliminating their reporting ranks at the state level, States Newsroom is doubling down on its commitment to covering the statehouses, where many of the nation’s most significant policy debates are taking place around legislation that could affect generations to come. Journalists from States Newsroom outlets are often the only reporters covering a state’s legislature.
To ensure a more informed public, States Newsroom has committed to growing its nearly 300,000 newsletter subscriptions significantly in the coming three years, recognizing the value in connecting directly with readers and relying less on third-party social media platforms.
“In a media-saturated world, where misinformation is rampant, readers can still control their newsletter consumption,” Shaw said. “And we’ve found that they trust our reporting because it’s fair and helps them make sense of bigger national stories. This newsletter will get it to them sooner each day.”
About States Newsroom:
States Newsroom is the nation’s largest nonprofit state-focused 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.
States Newsroom runs — or partners 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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