Pew: Statehouse Media Coverage Declines, But It’s Growing In Albany

Nick Reisman

The number of reporters who cover state Capitols nationwide continues to decline overall, but the number of reporters who cover Albany full time is growing, a Pew Research study found.

The bump in Albany coverage is due in large part to Capital New York, the for-profit website and magazine purchased by Politico publisher Robert Allbritton last year.

Capital fields a bureau of six in the Legislative Correspondents Association, which now tops out at 39 full-time reporters covering the legislative session.

Critics of Albany political coverage have often contended — with some merit — that coverage many times consists of “bubble” reporting as many reporters rarely leave the confines of the building, if not the third floor where our bureaus are based.
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