“It’s this great, simple experience, and the technology is getting so much better for it: AI’s getting better. big data’s more accessible.” Also: a Marty Baron bot.
“It’s basically like with anything that you do in media: Is it interesting? Is it easily accessible? Is it compelling? Are there reasons for me to come back?”
The Quartz Bot Studio (which the publication intends to maintain after the grant funding is used up) will develop new bots for messaging platforms like Slack and voice interfaces like Amazon Echo or Google Home.
Plus: Using TV’s playbook to pitch podcasts to advertisers, moving from magazines into audio, and a Slack experiment aims to make Gimlet’s core listeners feel engaged.
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. 8 Oct. 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 October 8, 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 October 8, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/07/the-slack-app-carebot-is-a-prototype-that-seeks-to-help-change-how-we-think-about-analytics/.
Wikipedia
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