Nieman Journalism Lab: How NPR maximised its news archive
May 5th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Online Journalism
Nieman Journalism Lab reports on NPR’s ‘backstory’ project – a Twitter account, automatically fed, that updates with relevant archive content around current trends.
The code that powers it detects if lots of people suddenly start searching for a certain term and searches NPR’s archives for related stories, before posting a link to Twitter.
