NOTUS launches new initiative to provide Washington coverage to local newsrooms
NOTUS, the nonprofit news outlet created by the Allbritton Journalism Institute, has launched an initiative to bring essential coverage of Washington, D.C., to local newsrooms that lack the resources to establish their own Washington bureaus.
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