NPR Backstory

By Katy Pearce on May 19, 2009
Tags: npr, twitter

NPR Backstory is an automated Twitter account feed that provides links to old news stories that might be relevant to current events. It uses NPR's API (That's application programming interface (API), a set of routines, data structures, object classes and/or protocols provided by libraries and/or operating system services in order to support the building of applications - Wikipedia).

For example, when people started googling "medical information" after an NPR story about patients' medical histories being accidentally exposed, NPRbackstory linked to an April 2008 analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of storing patient records online.

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