NOTUS Hires Seven Washington Post Journalists as It Builds a Bigger D.C. Newsroom

Overview

• NOTUS said in a Monday staff memo that nine journalists are joining its newsroom, seven of them from The Washington Post.
• The incoming group includes Dana Milbank, Paul Kane, Jeff Stein, and Politico defense reporter Joe Gould.
• The nonprofit, launched in 2023 by Robert Allbritton, is expanding to cover both political Washington and local Washington with a planned rebrand later this year.
• Dana Milbank praised Allbritton in his announcement, and Jeff Stein said his faith in current Post leadership was “broken beyond repair.”
• The moves follow the Post’s recent layoffs that eliminated more than 300 jobs, as the paper thanked departing colleagues in a statement.