Nieman Journalism Lab: How NPR maximised its news archive
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.
Tags: archives, Archiving, nieman journalism lab, NPR, NPRbackstory, Twitter, US Federal Reserve
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