States Newsroom
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States Newsroom is a left-leaning[1] non-profit news organization with outlets or partner outlets in all 50 U.S. states.[2] It began as a sponsored project of the Hopewell Fund, a left-leaning nonprofit that does not disclose its donors.[3][4] In 2019, it spun off to become its own non-profit. States Newsroom grew out of NC Policy Watch, a progressive think tank in North Carolina founded in 2004 by Chris Fitzsimon, who is now States Newsroom's director and publisher.[5]
A 2024 study by NewsGuard, a misinformation tracking company, found that "the number of partisan-backed outlets designed to look like impartial news outlets has officially surpassed the number of real, local daily newspapers in the U.S." NewsGuard identified at least 1,265 such websites "backed by dark money or intentionally masquerading as local news sites for political purposes." According to Axios, almost half of these websites are targeted to swing states, "a clear sign that they're designed to influence politics." On the political left, States Newsroom was described by Axios as having "some of the more strategic sites." Meanwhile, as of 2023, there were only 1,213 daily local newspapers in the U.S.[6]