| Industry | News |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2023 |
Key people | Robert Allbritton (publisher) Tim Grieve (editor-in-chief) |
| Owner | Allbritton Journalism Institute |
| Website | notus |
NOTUS ("News of the United States") is a digital news outlet owned by the Allbritton Journalism Institute, a nonprofit organization founded byRobert Allbritton in 2023.
Robert Allbritton established the Allbritton Journalism Institute in 2023 with a personal grant of $20 million. According to Allbritton, his intent was to create an outlet to train aspiring public affairs journalists, filling a gap formerly occupied by daily newspapers.[1]
NOTUS operates as a website at notus.org and publishes a daily newsletter. It also distributes its content to local nonprofit news organizations such asOklahoma Watch, theSanta Barbara News-Press, and others. In addition to its endowment from Allbritton, NOTUS has received funding from the Henry L. Kimelman Family Foundation, the Sandpiper Fund, the Google News Initiative,[2] an array of corporate advertisers, and from syndication fees paid by its local news partners.[3]
NOTUS covers thepolitics of the United States. It is staffed by a combination of experienced professional journalists and term-limited staff — "fellows" — of which ten are annually selected from recent university graduates and early-career journalists for a paid work experience reporting for NOTUS for 24-months, which is preceded by a month-long immersion course inWashington, D.C. and augmented by guest courses taught by veteran reporters. Some of the senior editors have included Richard Just, Matt Fuller, Kate Nocera, and Matt Berman.[1][4][5]
Notable journalists in their reporting staff includeJasmine Wright, Haley Byrd Wilt, Oriana González, Evan McMorris-Santoro, and Maggie Severns.[6][7]
NOTUS named long time Bloomberg executive Arielle Elliott its first CEO in March 2025.[8]