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Susan J. Demas

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Lansing, Michigan
As seen in: Lincoln Square, The New York Times, HuffPost, The Washington Post, Yahoo News, ABC News (Australia), Substack, Salon, The Star-Ledger, Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times and
Covers:  business, environment, courts, federal government, health care, michigan, politics, health, education, state politics, state government, capitol
Doesn't Cover: crime
Editor-in-chief & columnist at @MichiganAdvance, views are my own. Fmr. Inside Michigan Politics publisher. Mom, spouse, hiker, wanderer, feminist. HCIC.
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Susan J. Demas’s Biography

Susan J. Demas, 37, is Editor and Publisher of Inside Michigan Politics, a nationally acclaimed newsletter founded in 1987.

In 2014, the Washington Post named Demas one of its top state Capitol reporters. She also has been named one of the best political bloggers by both the Washington Post and Huffington Post.

Demas' work has run in or on more than 70 national, international and regional media outlets including The New York Times, NBC News, The Economist, Newsweek, Forbes, National Public Radio, The Politico, The Atlantic, The Columbia Journalism Review, Guardian U.K., Chicago Sun-Times, Bloomberg News, Reuters, Boston Herald, Seattle Times, Detroit Free Press, Toronto Sun, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, San Jose Mercury News, (St. Paul) Pioneer Press, Des Moines Register, Michigan Radio (NPR), WJR-AM in Detroit and Michigan Public Television's "Off the Record."

Demas is a 2006 Knight Foundation fellow in The Fourth Estate and the Third Sector program for nonprofits investigative journalism through Marshall University in Huntington, W.V..

Demas has been a reporter, editor and researcher for more than 12 years. She started her journalism career at The (Cedar Rapids) Gazette, the second-largest newspaper in Iowa, where she specialized in women's issues and Middle East affairs and covered the 2004 Iowa Presidential caucuses. In 2004, Demas reported from the U.S. Army Base at Ft. Dix, N.J., on units training for the Iraq war.

Inside Michigan Politics analyzes political and policy trends for several thousand readers, including corporations, trade associations, labor unions, government agencies, the White House and several foreign governments. IMP has been cited in The New York Times, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, Roll Call, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, HOTLINE and the Associated Press.