Susan J. Demas | Political columnist for MLive.com

Susan J. Demas is a a contributing political columnist who provides opinion, analysis and reports breaking news on local and national issues from a Michigan perspective. She is a 2006 Knight Foundation fellow in The Fourth Estate and the Third Sector program for nonprofits investigative journalism through Marshall University. She writes Capitol Chronicles, named one of Washington Post's best political blogs for 2009. Demas is a political analyst for Michigan Information & Research Service (MIRS) covering the Senate and presidential election. She writes a syndicated political column reaching 3 million readers for RealClearPolitics, the Detroit News, Dome Magazine, Lansing State Journal and eight newspapers for mlive.com. Demas’ work has run in or on more than 60 national, international and regional media outlets including NBC News, Newsweek, Forbes, National Public Radio, The Atlantic, The Politico, Reuters, Bloomberg News, The Economist, Columbia Journalism Review, Guardian U.K., Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Herald, Seattle Times, Toronto Sun, WJR-AM in Detroit and Michigan Public Television's "Off the Record." Demas started her journalism career at The (Cedar Rapids) Gazette, the second-largest newspaper in Iowa, where she specialized in women’s issues and Middle East affairs and covered the 2004 Iowa Presidential caucuses. In 2004, Demas reported from the U.S. Army Base at Ft. Dix, N.J., on units training for the Iraq war.