Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog » NPRbackstory http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors Online journalism news Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:16:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Nieman Journalism Lab: How NPR maximised its news archive http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/05/05/nieman-journalism-lab-how-npr-maximised-its-news-archive/ http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/05/05/nieman-journalism-lab-how-npr-maximised-its-news-archive/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 09:07:36 +0000 Laura Oliver http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=9995

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.

Full story at this link…

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