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What is NOTUS? Young reporters in a 'teaching hospital for journalism' learn from DC veterans

Poynter · Sophie Endrud · last updated

In late May, national news outlets revealed in shock that the Trump administration’s “Make America Health Again” Commission report included citations riddled with mistakes. Some sources were flat-out nonexistent.

As most outlets credited, the story was first broken by political news site NOTUS (an acronym for “news of the United States”). Two young reporters, Emily Kennard and Margaret Manto, had spent a week going through the over 500 footnotes in the MAHA report.

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