About Us

Governing provides news, analysis and insights for the professionals leading America’s states and localities.

Published since 1987, Governing is a trusted source of record for elected, appointed and other public leaders looking to manage the present and anticipate the future of state and local government.

Our Mission & Vision:

Today’s state and local leaders govern during a period of dramatic shifts in technology, demography, climate and the economy that are driving societal transformation. Governing: The Future of States and Localities takes on the question of what state and local government looks like in this world of rapid change.

Our mission is to be a reliable and essential resource to help public leaders successfully navigate these emerging challenges and dynamics.

To achieve this mission, Governing has assembled a team of experienced journalists, policy experts, historians, scholars and former public officials. Together, they offer an intelligent take on the operational, policy and ethical implications of these societal changes on state and local government found nowhere else.

Governing’s beat is as broad as the challenges facing our readers, including:

Dramatically shifting demographics
Changing nature of work, education and economic development
Climate, the environment and sustainability
Long-term social and economic equity
Future of urban and rural America
Aging and neglected infrastructure
Massive technological transformation including AI, cybersecurity and privacy, next-generation communications technology, and autonomous transportation
Internal migration — exploring the reasons (economic, political, environmental, etc.) why people adopt new places
Politics, civics and the health of democratic systems

Audience & Platform:

Governing’s readership consists of governors, mayors, county executives, city and county council members, state legislators, state and local agency executives and those holding key professional government positions.

Governing’s readers set the priorities, decide the strategies and budgets and manage the programs involving more than $3 trillion in annual spending by more than 15 million state and local government employees.

Governing’s all-digital information platform includes a robust mobile-first website, newsletters and custom content. Governing continues four decades of policy-informed journalism and storytelling, the first 32 years of which were as a print magazine.

Launched in 1987 by Congressional Quarterly, Governing was acquired in 2009 by e.Republic, the nation’s only media and research company focused exclusively on state and local government. e.Republic is also home to Government Technology, the Center for Digital Government, the Center for Digital Education and Industry Insider.