Fill critical coverage gaps before your next news cycle
When budgets tighten and coverage demands grow, important stories can slip through the cracks. The Center Square provides timely accountability reporting your team can use to serve readers, viewers, and listeners.
Run by newsrooms across the country
The Center Square provides news content to more than 1,350 media outlets, from local hometown papers to national syndication platforms.
Stories every weekday
Media partners
Republications a year
American adults reached daily*
*Cision average daily reach.
More to cover, fewer hands to cover it
Newsrooms are stretched thin. Trusted statehouse coverage from wire services is harder to find, costs are climbing, and editors are buried in content but short on the stories their communities need. We close that gap with reporting built by seasoned editors.
The pressure is real
Shrinking staffs, rising wire costs, and more content than editors have time to sort. Doing more with less has become the daily reality.
The gap it leaves
Statehouse coverage, government accountability, and local context are still essential, but fewer newsrooms have the hands to produce them.
How we help
A daily stream of ready-to-publish, taxpayer-focused reporting that fills the gap without adding to your team's workload.
Reporting your audience can use, and your masthead can stand behind
Every story starts with the questions that matter to readers: What happened? What does it cost? Who pays? How does it affect taxpayers, families, and businesses? That focus produces coverage editors can trust and audiences can rely on.
Timely coverage
Fresh statehouse, national, and accountability reporting delivered throughout the day.
Ready-to-publish content
Clear, concise stories your editors can evaluate and run without rewriting.
Accountability focus
Coverage centered on government decisions, public spending, regulation, policy, and consequences.
Flexible newsroom access
Seamlessly integrate content through RSS feeds, Daily Planner emails, and onboarding support to help your team use our reporting within your existing workflow.
A newswire relationship built for working newsrooms
The Center Square was built by and is run by legacy editors and award-winning industry professionals. This team gives publishers access to reliable accountability reporting without contracts, minimums, or unnecessary workflow friction.
Statehouse and national accountability reporting
Get timely coverage of government decisions, public spending, regulation, policy, and taxpayer impact.
Enterprise and investigative reporting
Access deeper reporting that follows public money, documents consequences, and strengthens public accountability. Embargoed content available upon request.
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Ready-to-publish video reporting
Add timely video segments that make state and national stories easier for your audience to follow, share, and understand. Personalized video player access available.
Onboarding and feed support
Work with our team to choose the best setup for your newsroom, platform, and publishing needs, including RSS, MRSS, and BLOX feed support.
Daily planner emails
Hear directly from our editors about available stories, developing coverage, and useful angles for your audience.
Partner Network
A closer working relationship for newsrooms that regularly run our reporting, with added editorial flexibility, training, roundtables, and story performance insights.
Accuracy comes first. Always.
The Center Square runs on one set of standards: accuracy, velocity, and frequency. We move fast and publish daily because editors need to count on us — but speed means nothing without getting it right.
We don’t publish staff opinion or advocacy content. We report what government does, what it costs, and who pays, then let readers decide. That’s reporting you can run with confidence.
Get started in the way that fits your newsroom
Tell us your market and we’ll run our wire into your newsroom on a trial basis. No commitment. No obligation. Just the reporting your readers haven’t been getting.
Tell us about your newsroom and coverage needs
Share your outlet name, primary editorial contact, publishing platform, and the coverage areas where you need support.
Choose how you receive content
Schedule a short onboarding call, review the republication guidelines, and confirm the workflow that works best for your team.
Publish what serves your audience
Run our reporting wherever it strengthens your coverage and helps your audience. Our team stays available for questions and support.
Built for working newsrooms
Hear from media partners who use our reporting to strengthen coverage, support their teams, and better serve their audiences.
Questions publishers and editors ask us
Have questions or ready to get started? Tell us about your newsroom’s needs and how you’d like to receive our reporting.
Any media outlet, including newspapers, broadcasters, radio stations, digital publishers, and other media may use our reporting with proper citations, according to our republication guidelines.
The Center Square is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our work is supported by a mix of philanthropic, syndication, and commercial advertising revenue. The newsroom maintains full editorial control. Commercial and donor support never determine what or how we cover a story.
No. We don’t publish staff opinion or advocacy content. We report what government does, what it costs, and who pays. We’re independently rated as reliable across multiple media bias trackers and are one of the closest media outlets to the "center" of the Ad Fontes media bias chart. Our coverage is grounded in one perspective: the taxpayer who funds government, whatever their politics.
The Center Square is built around government accountability, with deep statehouse coverage and a focus on taxpayer impact. The beats that other wires are pulling back from and have thinned out everywhere else. We deliver content as a newswire designed to serve your audience, with no contracts and no fees.
Yes. Partner Network members have more flexibility to adapt our reporting for their audiences, including headline edits and localization, as long as changes follow the applicable republication guidelines.
Yes. Images published on or after October 5, 2025, are generally safe to republish if the original credit line and any required attribution are preserved. Images from stories published before that date should not be reused without verifying rights, as some may come from services whose licenses do not extend to partners.
No. Use what serves your audience. Our team can help you find the right level for your newsroom.
Most partners start with RSS or BLOX feeds and the Daily Planner. Contact us today to determine the best setup for you and your team.
Strengthen your coverage without stretching your newsroom further
Your audience needs clear reporting on what government does, what it costs, and how those decisions affect your communities. The Center Square delivers that coverage so your newsroom can focus its time and resources on the work only you can do.