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AI-Powered Local News
Chariton Media publishes four AI-powered community newspapers covering Macon County, Missouri — bringing local news back to the towns that lost it.
The Problem
When a community loses its newspaper, it loses its record. Arrests go unreported. Crashes happen with no public account. Road closures hit without warning. Government meetings pass in silence.
The information still exists — buried in state databases, scattered across agency websites, locked behind systems nobody checks. The reporting disappeared, not the news.
The Solution
Our newspapers are powered by automated pipelines that pull from official sources — Missouri State Highway Patrol, MoDOT, county records, and public agencies — then publish verified local news in a format communities can actually use.
No paywalls. No clickbait. No staff of twenty. Just the local record your town deserves, running every day whether anyone remembers to check the state database or not.
What We Cover
Our Publications
Each paper serves its community with its own identity and design — but they all share the same automated news pipelines, resource guides, and commitment to the public record.
Serving La Plata & Western Macon County
Our flagship publication and the first AI-powered community newspaper in Missouri. The La Plata Record proved that a small town doesn't need a newsroom to have a newspaper — it needs a system that doesn't forget to check the records.
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Flagship · LiveGrowing
We're expanding across Missouri — bringing the same automated local coverage to more communities that have been left without a paper. If your town has lost its newspaper and you'd like to see it come back, we want to hear from you.
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