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The Washington Sun
U.S. center (nonprofit-backed straight news)
The Washington Sun is a digital news outlet that debuted in September 2026 as a rebrand of NOTUS. It is owned by NOTUS Media, LLC and tied to a nonprofit institute founded by Politico's Robert Allbritton. Its coverage is mainly straight news and accountability reporting on Washington politics, with no consistent partisan tilt toward or against the Trump administration.
Owned byOwned by NOTUS Media, LLC, which is affiliated with the Allbritton Journalism Institute, a nonprofit founded in 2023 by Politico founder Robert Allbritton. Allbritton is publisher. (Not to be confused with the older Cooke-family weekly Black newspaper of the same name in D.C.)
LeaningU.S. center (nonprofit-backed straight news)
On the administrationmostly neutral
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun