Statehouse reporting by news organizations nationwide is on the decline. As budget cuts are harsher, statehouse bureaus have grown smaller and coverage receives less play in the paper or on the nightly news. But now, more than ever, big decisions are being made in statehouses and I'm one of the reporters who's set on covering that news. I had my first experience covering the statehouse for the Columbia Missourian, the lab newspaper run by the Missouri School
I was one of a handful of Kansas and Missouri journalism graduates selected to work on a Kansas City Star microsite, dedicated to civic engagement and voter education on the Web. While covering breaking political news and one of Missouri's high-profile political races, I also helped train staffers on social media use and crowd-sourced reporting. Here's the description of the project from the Star's website: At its heart, The Midwest Democracy Project is a grand experiment to
