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Maggie Severns, Reporter

Maggie Severns

Former NOTUS Reporter

Maggie is an enterprise and investigative journalist who writes about money, power and politics. She has spent more than a decade exposing the behind-the-scenes forces that shape politics as a reporter at Politico, the award-winning news startup Grid and most recently The Messenger, where she covered the legal probes into Donald Trump. Her work has also been published in The Washington Post, The Atlantic and Time. She has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNBC, BBC, NPR’s “Fresh Air,” Amy Walter’s “The Takeaway,” “The Brian Lehrer Show” and C-SPAN.

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