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March 31, 2010 | 7:20 PM | By

OPB and API Ingest

Congratulations to Argo member Oregon Public Broadcasting for successful participation in the pilot around ingest of their content into the NPR API. This may be a fairly geeky topic… but we get quite enthused about stuff like this. Colin Fogarty of Northwest News Network wrote about participating in the pilot on the Inside NPR.org blog.

API ingest is a critical piece of Project Argo which will allow the stations to share content with one another and with others throughout the system.

So, congrats again to OPB and NPR’s Director of Application Development Daniel Jacobson for a successful launch. I know a few of the Argo stations will be a part of the API ingest pilot soon and we’ll make sure the all of the Argo sites will get there in time for launch this summer.

FILED UNDER: About, API, Ecotrope, NPR
March 25, 2010 | 6:57 PM | By

‘Context’ is king?

The ARGO team has been talking a great deal about the importance of context in telling stories. How do we avoid the trap of only telling readers/listeners the very latest story without providing the context to truly understand that story? And how do we make it easy to catch up, to understand complex issues in a relatively short period of time, while still drawing out the depth for which that public radio is known?

As has been noted in many places, that was one of the great triumphs of Planet Money’s The Giant Pool of Money. But we’re also thinking about it in associating related content to the most recent posts in a new and better way. Topics pages can certainly play a role, but we need far more than a link to another destination page that is simply a reverse chron list of stories mentioning that topic.

ARGO’s Matt Thompson has been doing a lot of thinking in this area. He was a featured speaker at South by Southwest, along with NYU’s Jay Rosen, on that subject. Terry Heaton’s PoMo blog quotes Matt and Jay from that panel in his post, “Context” is the new flavor for journalism.

FILED UNDER: In the Media, Theory, Context, Jay Rosen, NPR, SXSW, Topics