Editorial

NPR’s Facebook page and its 2.3 million-like audience is made up of users from thousands of cities across the world. We wondered: what if we focused on just one city?

I’m happy to report that we’ve been able to negotiate a renewal to NPR's agreement with Associated Press that will allow AP photos to display with NPR-authored stories to all sites with station-level access to the NPR API, including all Core Publisher sites.

Please note -- these photos can only be used to illustrate the story they are assigned to and may not be used in other stories.

No action is required to take advantage of this new feature. Starting today, whenever an NPR story is pulled down from the API with an associated AP photograph, the photograph will display along with the story.

Please direct any questions to your client services manager or feel free to reach out to me directly at smiller@npr.org.

The underbody of Project Argo is now open to everyone.

As the project moves to a new phase after over a year of blogging at 12 member stations, the tools and best practices used by Argo were made available Wednesday on a new open source site.

The site -- ProjectArgo.org -- is home to a collection of tools developed by the Argo team and used by its pilot group of 12 member station pilots. Go there now and you can download any one of the WordPress themes and plugins created by Argo to use for your own topic-based news site or something else. You also have access to best practices, training videos and other guides for building a robust news blog.

If you happened to catch "The Rachel Maddow Show" Thursday night, a Michigan Radio article in its raw form made a guest appearance.

A segment during the show focused on Michigan's Emergency Manager Law — state-appointed officials who have complete control over the cities or school districts they take over. Emergency managers are currently in control of four cities and one school district in Michigan.

Core Publisher, Digital Services' CMS platform, is evolving rapidly as we incorporate a wider range of audience-driving features and functionality. We began our construction back in June of 2010 with six pilot stations: KPLU, KUNC, Michigan Radio, KUT, St. Louis Public Radio, and Innovation Trail. By the end of this calendar year we plan to have most of the Public Interactive CMS customers migrated over to Core Publisher.