Jane Norman

Jane directs national coverage, managing staff in the nation’s capital and assigning and editing national as well as state and region-specific daily and enterprise stories.

Before coming to States Newsroom, she was the editor for national education policy and the congressional budget and appropriations process for POLITICO.

A native of Illinois, Jane earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines. She worked first for the Des Moines Tribune and then The Des Moines Register. She was a correspondent in the Register’s Washington bureau for 20 years, where she covered the Iowa congressional delegation and wrote the “Potomac Fever” weekly column. In 2009, she joined CQ Roll Call, where she was a reporter and editor for eight years.