Digital Services Leadership Team

Robert Kempf
Robert Kempf
Vice President & General Manager, Digital Services
Doug Gaff
Doug Gaff
Director of Technology
Keith Hopper
Keith Hopper
Director of Product Strategy and Development
Stephanie Miller
Stephanie Miller
Director of Station Relations and Communications
Steve Mulder
Steve Mulder
Director of User Experience & Analytics

Doug Gaff

Director of Technology

Doug runs Technology for NPR Digital Services. DS Tech builds and hosts a suite of web and digital products for public media member station. DS Tech also builds and contributes technology to the Drupal and Wordpress open source communities, and supports Public Media's usage of the NPR API. Doug has over 15 years managing diverse technical teams in the embedded, desktop, mobile and web application spaces.


Prior to joining NPR, Doug ran a collection of open source projects in the Eclipse Community and served on the Eclipse Board of Directors. In addition to being an early participate in two start-up companies; Doug founded a higher education web publishing start-up. Doug is a strong proponent of open source software and communities, organizational design, and Agile methodologies. Doug holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering.

NPR Story API
1:15 pm
Mon April 1, 2013

Announcing the WordPress NPR API Plugin

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Digital Services is pleased to announce version 1.1 of our WordPress Plugin for connecting your WordPress blog with the NPR Story API. This plugin, developed for WordPress version 3.2, provides both push and pull functionality for the Story API.

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NPR Story API
12:06 pm
Wed September 26, 2012

NPR API Content Permissions Control

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Of all the services and platforms provided by Digital Services, the NPR Story API provides the most fundamental value to stations, allowing digital access to NPR content and to station content. The Story API is used by both NPR and stations to contribute and consume local and national news stories.

In an effort to provide stations with more control over the content they contribute to the API for broader distribution, NPR Digital Services is pleased to announce content permissions control in the NPR story API.

Content Sharing with the NPR API

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NPR API
5:47 pm
Mon May 21, 2012

How Drupal-Based Stations Can Now Get NPR API Benefits

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NPR Digital Services built our flagship Core Publisher product on Drupal 7. Core Publisher provides a streamlined publishing experience for local station news content that allows a station's end users to consume content on the web and on mobile devices.

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