Greg Bluestein

Greg Bluestein
Born (1982-05-25) May 25, 1982
Sandy Springs, Georgia, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Georgia
OccupationJournalist
EmployerThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Greg Bluestein (born May 25, 1982) is an American journalist, author and TV analyst who covers Georgia politics for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has also written about former President Jimmy Carter and covered regional and national news as an Atlanta-based journalist for The Associated Press. He contributes to the Political Insider blog,[1] is an MSNBC and NBC News contributor, and is host of the Politically Georgia podcast.[2]

Career

Bluestein was born in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from North Springs High School and the University of Georgia (political science and journalism), where he was editor of The Red & Black campus newspaper.[3]

Bluestein spent seven years with the Associated Press, between 2005 and 2012, where he covered breaking news, politics and legal affairs. He reported on the execution of Troy Davis,[4] the post-presidency of Jimmy Carter[5] and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill,[6] the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion[7] and the major tornado outbreak of 2011 in Alabama and Georgia.[8]

He joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2012 to write about the political trends that shaped the region.[9] He covered the 2014 race for governor between Nathan Deal and Jason Carter and the 2016[10] and 2020[11] presidential elections. He has examined how Joe Biden won Georgia in 2020[12] and documented the political ascent of Stacey Abrams,[13] Brian Kemp,[14] Jon Ossoff,[15] Raphael Warnock[16] and David Perdue.[17]

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Bluestein contributed to a series of articles examining political change in the "Shifting South."[18] He also has reported Georgia-related news from the Panama Canal Zone[19] and Israel.[20]

Bluestein was called Georgia's "chief political reporter" in an article in Atlanta Magazine[21] and the state's "ace" politics journalist by Chris Cillizza.[22]

He was named to UGA's 40 Under 40 Honorees in 2021. He delivered the convocation address at UGA's Grady College in 2021.[23] Axios called him the "most dedicated"[24] Georgia fan at the 2023 college football national championship when he attended the Los Angeles game shortly after being hospitalized in San Diego with a kidney stone.

On stage at a Donald Trump rally in 2022, he was called "Buttstein" by former State Representative Vernon Jones.[25]

He is an MSNBC and NBC News political contributor[26] and author of Flipped, published in 2022,[27] on Georgia's transformation into a swing state. He has won numerous awards, including a 2021 Toner Prize for Local Political Reporting for a project on the campaign to undermine Georgia's 2020 election[28] and won first-place for political reporting in the South in 2024 and 2025 by the Society for Professional Journalists.[29]

Books

  • Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power (Viking, 2022) ISBN 978-0-593-48915-4

References

  1. ^ "AJC Political Insider blog". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  2. ^ "AJC Politically Georgia Podcast". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  3. ^ "Red & Black Appoints Eight Board Members". The Red and Black.
  4. ^ "Troy Davis executed after final appeals are denied". www.gainesvilletimes.com.
  5. ^ Greg Bluestein. "30 years later, still serving". www.inquirer.com.
  6. ^ Greg Bluestein; Harry R. Weber. "Mud plugs well; feds say much of Gulf oil is gone". Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
  7. ^ Bluestein, Greg. "W.Va. miner talks about underground explosion". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  8. ^ Reeves, Jay; Bluestein, Greg. "South staggering in tornadoes' ruins". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  9. ^ "40 Under 40 honoree profile: Greg Bluestein". August 27, 2021.
  10. ^ Bluestein, Greg. "Why the South is anything but solid for either Clinton or Trump". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  11. ^ Bluestein, Greg. "A Georgian's guide to the Iowa caucus". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  12. ^ Bluestein, Greg; Hallmerman, Tamar. "How Biden ended Georgia's 24-year Republican streak". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  13. ^ Bluestein, Greg. "Updates: Stacey Abrams launches national expansion of voting rights group". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  14. ^ Bluestein, Greg. "Governor's race revives a familiar feud between Kemp, Abrams". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – via AJC.com.
  15. ^ Cillizza, Chris, ed. (April 17, 2017). "How a Georgia House race could rock the national political landscape | CNN Politics". CNN.
  16. ^ Bluestein, Greg. "Raphael Warnock, pastor of famed church, enters Georgia Senate race". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – via AJC.com.
  17. ^ Bluestein, Greg. "AJC Interview: Inside Perdue's plan to defeat Kemp in 2022".
  18. ^ "The Shifting South". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  19. ^ Bluestein, Greg. "Georgia's port push starts in Panama". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  20. ^ Bluestein, Greg (27 June 2014). "Nathan Deal makes a play for Jewish voters in Georgia governor race". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  21. ^ Wheatley, Thomas (April 27, 2021). "60 Voices: Jim Galloway and Greg Bluestein on covering Georgia politics".
  22. ^ Cillizza, Chris. "Inside the Georgia governor's hugely high-stakes coronavirus gamble". CNN.
  23. ^ Reporter, Sydney Dangremond | Breaking News. "Greg Bluestein to deliver Grady convocation address". The Red and Black. Retrieved 2022-06-29.
  24. ^ https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2023/01/10/georgia-defeats-tcu-college-football-playoff-national-championship-65-7
  25. ^ Jones, Vernon [@VernonForGA] (30 March 2022). "@gregneverlies Another big dummy! Why waste a vote? I was still a democrat. Trump was unopposed in the Republican presidential primary. I voted for Trump over @JoeBiden in Nov. 2020 General election. Changed parties in 2021. The bigot Greg Buttstein got you looking stupid! @ajc @bluestein" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022 – via Twitter.
  26. ^ MSNBC Public Relations [@MSNBCPR] (27 January 2022). "Join us in welcoming @ajc's Greg @bluestein to @MSNBC as a Political Contributor. https://t.co/CtVIwu5eZ5" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 16 May 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022 – via Twitter.
  27. ^ "Flipped by Greg Bluestein: 9780593489154 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  28. ^ Newhouse School [@NewhouseSU] (28 March 2022). "Congratulations to @ajc, winners of the Toner Prize for Local Political Reporting. @dwickert @markniesse @bluestein @MayaTPrabhu @ajconwashington @isaacsabetai @JimJournalist #TonerPrizes https://t.co/NyEnO1RuKU" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 29 March 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022 – via Twitter.
  29. ^ by the Society of Professional Journalists. https://www.greeneyeshade.org/2024-winners/
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