Greg Bluestein
| Greg Bluestein | |
|---|---|
[[File:  | |
| Born | May 25, 1982 Sandy Springs, Georgia |
| 🏫 Education | University of Georgia |
| 💼 Occupation | Journalist |
| 👔 Employer | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
| 🌐 Website | https://www.ajc.com/staff/greg-bluestein/ |
Greg Bluestein is an American journalist, author, and TV analyst who covers Georgia politics for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has also written about former President Jimmy Carter and covered regional and national news as an Atlanta-based journalist for The Associated Press. He contributes to the Political Insider blog[1] and is host of the Politically Georgia podcast[2].
Career
Bluestein was born in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia, where he was editor of The Red & Black campus newspaper[3].
Bluestein spent seven years with The Associated Press, between 2005 and 2012, where he covered breaking news, politics, and legal affairs. He reported on the execution of Troy Davis, [4] the post-presidency of Jimmy Carter [5] and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, [6] the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion[7] and the major tornado outbreak of 2011 in Alabama and Georgia[8].
He joined the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2012 to write about the political trends that shaped the region[9]. He covered the 2014 race for governor between Nathan Deal and Jason Carter and the 2016[10] and 2020[11] presidential elections. He has examined how Joe Biden won Georgia in 2020[12] and documented the political ascent of Stacey Abrams[13], Brian Kemp[14], Jon Ossoff[15], Raphael Warnock[16] and David Perdue[17]
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Bluestein contributed to a series of articles examining political change in the “Shifting South.”[18] He also has reported Georgia-related news from the Panama Canal Zone[19] and Israel[20].
Bluestein was dubbed Georgia's "chief political reporter" in an article in Atlanta Magazine[21] and the state's "ace" politics journalist by CNN Politics Editor Chris Cillizza. [22]
He is an MSNBC and NBC News political contributor [23] and author of "Flipped," a book to be published in March 2022 [24] on Georgia's transformation into a swing state. He is a winner of the 2021 Toner Prize for Local Political Reporting for a project on Georgia’s role in the Jan. 6 deadly mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol. [25]
Books
- Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power (Viking, 2022) ISBN 978-0-593-48915-4 Search this book on
.
References
- ↑ "AJC Political Insider blog". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- ↑ "AJC Politically Georgia Podcast". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- ↑ "Red & Black Appoints Eight Board Members". The Red and Black.
- ↑ "Troy Davis executed after final appeals are denied". www.gainesvilletimes.com.
- ↑ Greg Bluestein. "30 years later, still serving". www.inquirer.com.
- ↑ Greg Bluestein; Harry R. Weber. "Mud plugs well; feds say much of Gulf oil is gone". Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
- ↑ Bluestein, Greg. "W.Va. miner talks about underground explosion". Hartford Courant. Archived from the original on 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ↑ Reeves, Jay; Bluestein, Greg. "South staggering in tornadoes' ruins". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ↑ "40 Under 40 honoree profile: Greg Bluestein". August 27, 2021.
- ↑ Bluestein, Greg. "Why the South is anything but solid for either Clinton or Trump". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ↑ Bluestein, Greg. "A Georgian's guide to the Iowa caucus". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ↑ Bluestein, Greg; Hallmerman, Tamar. "How Biden ended Georgia's 24-year Republican streak". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ↑ Bluestein, Greg. "Updates: Stacey Abrams launches national expansion of voting rights group". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ↑ Bluestein, Greg. "Governor's race revives a familiar feud between Kemp, Abrams" – via AJC.com.
- ↑ Cillizza, Chris, ed. (April 17, 2017). "How a Georgia House race could rock the national political landscape | CNN Politics". CNN.
- ↑ Bluestein, Greg. "Raphael Warnock, pastor of famed church, enters Georgia Senate race" – via AJC.com.
- ↑ Bluestein, Greg. "AJC Interview: Inside Perdue's plan to defeat Kemp in 2022".
- ↑ "The Shifting South". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- ↑ Bluestein, Greg. "Georgia's port push starts in Panama". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ↑ Bluestein, Greg (27 June 2014). "Nathan Deal makes a play for Jewish voters in Georgia governor race". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ↑ Wheatley, Thomas (April 27, 2021). "60 Voices: Jim Galloway and Greg Bluestein on covering Georgia politics".
- ↑ Cillizza, Chris. "Inside the Georgia governor's hugely high-stakes coronavirus gamble". CNN.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/msnbcpr/status/1486803260640047104
- ↑ "Flipped by Greg Bluestein: 9780593489154 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/newhousesu/status/1508589261355896840?s=21&t=C2hyV5_2Kxg1T0GBqnJFKw
External links
- Greg Bluestein bio and recent articles, ajc.com
- Press On - Greg Bluestein
- Gregory Bluestein - C-SPAN.org
This article "Greg Bluestein" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Greg Bluestein. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
|
This page exists already on Wikipedia. |
