The Maine Monitor will break a long-standing trend in Maine’s news industry by supporting a D.C.-based correspondent dedicated to covering Maine’s congressional delegation.
Maine’s daily newspapers once employed D.C.-based reporters dedicated solely to covering the state’s congressional delegation. No Maine-based news outlet, however, has maintained a D.C. correspondent in more than 15 years.
In September, The Monitor will partner with NOTUS to support a correspondent based in Washington, D.C., who will report on Maine’s congressional delegation and how their decisions and other federal actions are impacting the state.
NOTUS is the nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom of the Allbritton Journalism Institute, a D.C.-based journalism education organization that trains the next generation of political journalists.
The NOTUS correspondent, who will closely follow both Maine and Vermont, will be part of the NOTUS Washington Bureau Initiative, a nationwide program which gives readers in local communities across the country critical accountability reporting from the halls of power in Washington.
Maine Monitor editors will work with the NOTUS team to determine the questions Mainers most want answered. (Share your story ideas for this new beat.)
Like all Maine Monitor work, this reporting will be free to read without a paywall and free for our newsroom partners to republish.
The position will be jointly supported by donations to The Maine Monitor, the nonprofit Vermont newsroom VTDigger and NOTUS.
