NPR and The New York Times Teamed Up to Make Election Reporting Faster

That’s why journalists are bound to pay attention when The AP changes the way it distributes race calls and polling returns to its network of subscribers.   They did earlier this year, when the newswire released an updated version of its elections API — the interface by which journalists access The AP’s information. The shift posed a problem for The New York Times, said Jeremy Bowers, an interactive news developer for the newspaper.