States Newsroom, a North Carolina-based network of state-based nonprofit news outlets that includes the Iowa Capital Dispatch, announced it will bring all of its coverage together in one place with the launch of News From the States, a comprehensive source for statehouse news across the country. In the next 2 1/2 years, the organization will expand to newsrooms in roughly 40 states with content sharing agreements in the remaining states. “It’s time to stop treating news as just a business and start to treat it also as a public service, a public good,” said Chris Fitzsimon, director and publisher of States Newsroom. “That’s how we’ve thought of States Newsroom since we began in 2017. We’re proud to have newsrooms in 25 states and counting, as well as a Washington, D.C., bureau.” The Iowa affiliate of States Newsroom, the Iowa Capital Dispatch, was launched in January 2020.