Nieman Journalism Lab: NPR’s Infinite Player: It’s like a public radio station that only plays the kinds of pieces you like, forever
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 10:54
“This week, NPR unveiled Infinite Player, a web app that mimics the simplicity of radio, but with a personalized twist. Press play to hear the latest NPR newscast, followed by a never-ending playlist of random feature stories. It doesn’t stop till yo…
New York Times: Storify Collects Strands of News on the Social Web
Monday, 25 April 2011, 16:42
"Storify … is one of several Web start-ups — including Storyful, Tumblr and Color — that are developing ways to help journalists and others sift through the explosion of online content and publish the most relevant information. Investors are…
New York Times: Guantánamo Files – A Note to Readers
Monday, 25 April 2011, 16:42
"The Guantánamo files were part of a huge trove of secret documents leaked last year to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks. They were made available to The New York Times by another source on the condition of anonymity. National Public Radio…
NPR: Introducing The NPR iPad App And Site
Friday, 2 April 2010, 22:50
"If you happen to be among the hard-core enthusiasts who plan to purchase Apple's new iPad — as much as 5 percent of the NPR audience — we'll be there for you Day One with a fully redesigned app and a Web site that's optimized for the platform."
AllthingsD: NPR Creating New App and Web Site for Apple iPad
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 16:20
Peter Kafka: "if all goes as planned, iPad users who want to listen to NPR programming will have a couple choices next month. They can: Download a free iPad-optimized version of the broadcaster’s popular (two million downloads) iPhone app. Or Use the iPad’s browser to visit NPR.org, which will detect that it’s being viewed with Apple’s device and serve up a custom-built site."
Inside NPR.org Blog: The Making of the NPR News iPhone App
Saturday, 22 August 2009, 09:27
"For this app to succeed, however, it couldn't just be a radio-like experience. We needed to create a place for active listening as well…"
New York Times: NPR Is Enhancing Its Web Site
Monday, 27 July 2009, 07:12
"In the coming weeks, NPR will release free mobile applications for the iPhone, Google’s Android and Symbian-powered phones. … One element that users will not see much of on the NPR Web site is video. An experiment a year ago of adding more video to the site particularly irked local member stations, who did not want competition from video. Video is expensive, Ms. Schiller said, and she and Mr. Wilson are not convinced of its value."
Poynter: NPR Uses Crowdsourcing to Identify Lobbyists in ‘Dollar Politics’ Project
Saturday, 27 June 2009, 05:50
"This isn't a massive, complicated crowdsourcing effort, and it's not the centerpiece of the project. But it is an example of turning a specific part of a reporting project over to the public to find out what they know."
Poynter: NPR Uses Crowdsourcing to Identify Lobbyists in ‘Dollar Politics’ Project
Saturday, 27 June 2009, 05:50
"This isn't a massive, complicated crowdsourcing effort, and it's not the centerpiece of the project. But it is an example of turning a specific part of a reporting project over to the public to find out what they know."
Nieman Journalism Lab: NPRbackstory: Finding value in news archives through automation
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 21:32
"NPRbackstory uses Google’s Hot Trends data to determine what topics people have suddenly started searching for in large numbers. It uses NPR’s API to search the archives, then uses Yahoo Pipes to create an RSS feed that then gets cycled into the NPRbackstory Twitter account."
Fast Company: Will NPR Save the News?
Sunday, 22 March 2009, 22:57
"The most successful hybrid of old and new media comes from the last place you'd expect. How NPR's digital smarts, nonprofit structure, and good old-fashioned shoe leather just might save the news. "
NPR: Clean Content = Portable Content
Thursday, 5 February 2009, 11:21
"Most content management systems for the online world are used to create Web pages. That said, the Web page is just one possible output for the content (albeit, an important one). In building our CMS at NPR, our goal was to make sure the tool could publish to anything, including NPR.org. If our focus did not consider other platforms, we could have ended up with a Web publishing system that binds the content too closely to the Web site itself."
Knight Digital Media Center Weblog: NPR iPhone app not made by NPR
Friday, 30 January 2009, 00:30
"The curious case about this particular app is that it wasn't built by NPR – they didn't even contract it out. It was built by a software engineer named Bradley Flubacher who, according to his blog, built it simply 'To learn how to program the iPhone." I say NPR caught a sweet break." No, not just a sweet break – a success for its API strategy.
Inside NPR.org: NPR’s Open Content Strategy
Thursday, 1 January 2009, 11:40
"If our content is truly open, it will enable users to mash it up, keep it relevant to them, and share it with new audiences in places where those people are. Although NPR.org is still critical to our strategy, we can no longer rely exclusively on the site as a way to reach people. " (November 2008)
