Outlet track record
NOTUS
U.S. center-left (nonpartisan-leaning training newsroom)
NOTUS is a Washington, D.C. political news outlet run as a nonprofit training program for early-career journalists, founded and bankrolled by Politico founder Robert Allbritton. Media Bias/Fact Check rates it left-center with high factual reporting, while AllSides lists it near center with low confidence; its Trump-era coverage of tariffs, Iran policy, and Congress has generally been straight news reporting rather than overt advocacy. As of fall 2026 the outlet was in the process of rebranding (first floated as 'The Star,' then settled as 'The Washington Sun') while expanding beyond politics into local D.C. news and sports.
Owned byNOTUS Media, LLC, operated by the Allbritton Journalism Institute (AJI), a nonprofit founded by Robert Allbritton (also founder of Politico)
LeaningU.S. center-left (nonpartisan-leaning training newsroom)
On the administrationmixed
4.2average bias score across 10 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun