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Argo is going to be an important part of NPR’s Digital Services offerings, he said. The experience will also be part of the curriculum in the digital-news training that NPR will roll out with support from a $1.5 million Knight Foundation grant announced last month.

“We’re in the planning phase for the coming year, and the Knight training grant is going to allow us to work with many more stations now on this overall digital strategy,” Sucherman said. StateImpact, the NPR project supporting station-based enterprise reporting on state governments, is another key priority for NPR’s digital journalism team.

At Current’s deadline, NPR was preparing to release as open-source code the project’s adaption of WordPress, as well as a series of tutorials on the blogging practices followed by Argo bloggers.  The website created for the release, which includes an overview of the project and links to all 12 station sites, is a targoproject.org.