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Worth a read, if you’ve not done so already, is the big chunk of an email to the staff of Bryant Park Project, from NPR’s interim CEO, Dennis Haarsager, who completed the cycle by posting it to his blog on Tuesday.
It’s exceptionally good, written with the tone you’d expect from someone who is a visionary, [...]

Why? Here’s my (incomplete) list.

* Unprecedented flexibility for anyone, from a blogger in Pittsburgh to KQED in San Francisco, to generate highly specific content searches of the NPR archive (going back to 1995) and port the results to a webpage or an application.
* A number of stations also have their archives inside the system, too. [...]

NPR’s “Inside” blog has announced the coming launch of its new API in the next few days.
10am UPDATE: It’s now live. Here’s Daniel Jacobson’s post.
This is a pretty big deal… a signal of openness from NPR, a willingness to let developers have access to NPR’s content, and the beginning of what could be some really [...]

The new blog launches today, offering an inside look at web development at NPR, from social media projects to election projects, mobile, etc. Andy Carvin and Daniel Jacobson appear to be in charge of the blog - or at least, co-authors of the opening post.
Great to see this kind of information sharing!
Inside NPR.org is one [...]

Etsy has produced this video welcoming NPR Digital Media SVP Maria Thomas to their online community. Maria, of course, is to become Etsy’s new COO.

Fred Wilson, of Union Square Ventures, writes in his blog that he worked hard to recruit Maria for the Etsy job.
Looking good, Maria… best of luck!

PRPD’s blog covers the particulars of Jay’s departure to CNN - and rightly notes the meat of the announcement: the more broad programming role that NPR is considering as it moves to replace him - the multi-platform approach that Ken Stern, Mitch Praver and others are thinking about. This bears watching.