People from 433 out of 435 congressional districts have signed up for ProPublica’s User Guide to Democracy, reporters from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times want you to text them, and more. Christine Schmidt
Users forward dubious messages to a chatbot; volunteer editors evaluate their credibility; the bot answers back to the user (and anyone wondering in the future).
“One of our goals has been to talk about the news in a way that invites our audience into the news cycle. We’re trying to make it a little bit easier for people to be engaged.”
A neighborhood watch Facebook group, reader chatbot, and a state-focused project: “We all serve the greater Coloradoan community and we each have parts to play in that.”
“Problems news organizations will run into, we’ve run into before, we can help them with that, and we can hopefully help them get the same retention and engagement we did.”
Washington-Harmon, Taylyn. "The Slack app Carebot is a prototype that seeks to help change how we think about analytics." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 8 Jul. 2016. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.
APA
Washington-Harmon, T. (2016, Jul. 8). The Slack app Carebot is a prototype that seeks to help change how we think about analytics. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/07/the-slack-app-carebot-is-a-prototype-that-seeks-to-help-change-how-we-think-about-analytics/
Chicago
Washington-Harmon, Taylyn. "The Slack app Carebot is a prototype that seeks to help change how we think about analytics." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 8, 2016. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/07/the-slack-app-carebot-is-a-prototype-that-seeks-to-help-change-how-we-think-about-analytics/.
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