The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise of Open News Platforms: The Twisty Path towards a Net Ecosystem That Makes News More Discoverable, Reusable, and Relevant - Shorenstein Center

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-07-14

Summary:

"A new paper by David Weinberger, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center, explores the successes, challenges and opportunities for news organizations using APIs. An API (application programming interface) enables websites and applications to talk to each other and efficiently share data and functionality across sites and platforms. In 2008 The Guardian, The New York Times and NPR all developed open APIs, with the hope that software developers around the world would use the resources and data to create interesting and useful apps and tools. Although little of this initial vision came to pass, all three news outlets did benefit enormously from using APIs. Distributing content across multiple sites, building iPad apps, and adapting content for social media are just a few projects made much easier through the use of an API. In this paper, Weinberger provides both practical recommendations for creating open APIs and a vision for a future of online news where open APIs become commonplace – enabling a new era of interoperability and shareability across the Web."

Link:

http://shorensteincenter.org/open-news-platforms-david-weinberger/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.audio oa.podacast oa.harvard.u oa.media oa.newspapers oa.tools oa.apps oa.apis oa.crowd oa.lay oa.social_media oa.journalism

Date tagged:

07/14/2015, 07:29

Date published:

07/14/2015, 03:29