#A Brief Guide to Using the Public Media Platform with Core Publisher

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At this writing the Public Media Platform provides access to more than 400,000 pieces of content from PBS, NPR, APM, PRI, and PRX. As more public media stations begin pushing local content into the PMP, the total store will rapidly grow. Anyone with a PMP account can pull this content and reuse it in various ways.

For local station websites, access to the PMP means they can pull in external content related to their own programs, stories, and projects. Adding related content from the PMP can provide context and depth to local content. Multi-station projects, like the Regional Journalism Collaborations, can use the PMP to aggregate and reuse content from all the stations. This can increase the reach and impact of our work, and grow our audience.

For stations using Core Publisher, pulling content from the PMP is easy. There are several ways to do this, and this guide explains each method.

Coming soon, Core Publisher will also be able to push content into the PMP. This will open new doors to collaboration and add tremendous value to the PMP as a platform for sharing content across the entire public media ecosystem.

##What's here

• Pushing stories to the PMP
• Pulling PMP content into Core Publisher by individual story
• Creating a landing page to display stories pulled from the PMP
• Creating an hourly pull of PMP content to a Program or Category page
• What is a PMP GUID and how to use it
• Bugs and Known Issues with the PMP in Core Pubisher, and how to get help

###NPR Digital Services resources on Core Publisher and the PMP

• NPR DS has a downloadable PDF guide describing the steps needed to set up your Core Publisher site for pulling content from the PMP.
• The Core Publisher Knowledge Base has extensive guides to getting started and using Core Publisher.
• If you run into any issues with Core Publisher or errors pulling or pushing PMP content, please contact the NPR Digital Services Support Center.

####About this guide

This guide was created by the Institute for Nonprofit News. It is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 license. You can help improve it by:

• sending a comment or question to us at nerds@inn.org.
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