Greg Bluestein is an Americanjournalist, 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] and is host of the Politically Georgia podcast[2].
Bluestein was born in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia, where he was 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 dubbed Georgia's "chief political reporter" in an article in Atlanta Magazine[21] and the state's "ace" politics journalist by CNN Politics Editor Chris Cillizza. [22]
He is an MSNBC and NBC News political contributor [23] and author of "Flipped," a book to be published in March 2022 [24] on Georgia's transformation into a swing state.