POLITICO founder plots new Washington newspaper war

One of Washington, D.C.’s biggest media investors plans to revive one of the U.S. capital’s great historic rivalries with a direct attack on the limping Washington Post.

Robert Allbritton, who founded POLITICO and NOTUS and whose father owned the Post rival Washington Star, has discussed taking advantage of the Post’s large-scale layoffs and damaged brand by significantly expanding NOTUS, a public-spirited and education-oriented source of government coverage, into a full-scale news operation, potentially even under a different name, three people with direct knowledge of the conversations said.

NOTUS Media in February filed an application to trademark a new name — The Washington Sun — according to filings.

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