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# The Washington Sun to “reimagine the traditional newspaper for the digital age”
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/the-washington-sun-to-reimagine-the-traditional-newspaper-for-the-digital-age/
- Published: 2026-09-09T13:34:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T18:28:35.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: Media, Insights, #wp-upper-left-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:56

**The Washington Sun rises “and with it a belief that we can reimagine the traditional newspaper for the digital age,”** [writes](https://washingtonsun.com/perspectives/dana-milbank-the-washington-sun-rises-today-i-hope-youll-join-our-orbit?redirected=notus%5Forg&ref=capitolcommunicator.com) **Dana Milbank** about The Sun.

The Washington Sun is the new name for the news website NOTUS after a trademark lawsuit stymied plans to rebrand as The Star.

According to Milbank, The Sun has embarked on “a grand experiment to test whether there is a market in the nation’s capital for a publication that covers the local news, culture and sports that are the glue of any community. And we aim to prove that a general-interest publication combining national and local news can be viable in the 21st century.

“Our backer, Politico founder Robert Allbritton, owned D.C.’s NewsChannel 8 and WJLA-TV years ago, and his family once owned one of Washington’s major dailies. He is now placing a big bet on The Sun.”

The Sun, states Milbank, has built a 110-person newsroom and at least 28 “are former Posties, including Paul Kane, Jeff Stein, Kadia Goba, Dave Sheinin, Andrew Van Dam, Tom Sietsema, Thomas Boswell and many other names that will be familiar to Post readers. We’re also teaming up with my former colleagues Jason Samenow, Dan Stillman, Ian Livingston and the rest of Capital Weather (called the Capital Weather Gang when they were at the Post) to provide forecasts.

“The Sun already has more sports reporters than any other D.C.-area publication, and we’re picking up the high school sports coverage and metropolitan athlete honors that the Post had done for a century until this year. Our local news coverage, spearheaded by such well-known D.C. reporters as Martin Austermuhle (formerly of WAMU and The 51st), is equally ambitious in filling the metro news vacuum for Washingtonians.”

Milbank’s role at The Sun will be “to write frequent columns about the absurd and the outrageous in national politics, as I’ve done for most of my career. I will also file pieces about the country life from Rappahannock County, Virginia, as I’ve been doing for the past few years. I’ll be mixing it up in a new video podcast with my friend Matt Lewis, The Sun’s conservative columnist. That’s all part of The Sun’s Perspectives section, which is run by Richard Just (former editor of The Washington Post Magazine) and Alexa McMahon (another ex-Postie) and will publish opinions from the left, right and center.

“The Sun’s success is by no means assured (that will depend on you, the reader) but I think it is vitally important, and not just for those of us on the payroll. We can’t long survive as a democracy, or as a free people, without healthy news organizations that appeal to broad cross sections of our communities.”