Gene Gibbons is a founding editor of Stateline.org, a nonprofit nonpartisan online news site. Gibbons was Reuters’ chief White House correspondent from 1985 to 1997, and for 16 years before that a member of the United Press International Washington bureau. He covered Watergate, Iran-Contra and the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and in 1992 was a panelist for the third Clinton-Bush-Perot presidential campaign debate. Gibbons, an avid sailor who has written about ocean racing for sport magazines, is a volunteer coach for the U.S. Naval Academy offshore sailing team. At the Shorenstein Center, Gibbons looked at how diminished news coverage of state government has affected state government performance.