Predictions for digital journalism in 2013. We asked seven industry experts to share their predictions for digital journalism in 2013.
They are key figures from the New York Times, WSJ.com, FT.com, the Daily Post, plus an academic, the founder social news agency Storyful, and a leader in B2B who is also chair of the Association of Online Publishers. There are predictions around mobile, paywalls, social media platforms and more. If you would prefer to hear them explain their predictions, you can listen to them speaking in this podcast.
Here they are listed in alphabetical order of first name. Alison Gow, editor of the Daily Post and DailyPost.co.uk, North Wales Social tools Alison Gow predicts there will be a need for journalists to "work smarter not harder" in 2013, using digital tools to help "do the job more efficiently". Her team currently uses a range of tools "to try and bring the news to people in the event of a news break". It is all about "helping people tell the story", she says.
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Become a Content Curation King. Sean Carton | August 29, 2011 | 18 Comments inShare79 Nine ways to make curation work for your brand.
"Curation" is a buzzword (even if it isn't technically a word…unless you count the 14th century French definition meaning "to cure") that's smokin' up the interwebs these days. Launching into the blogosphere virtually from nowhere in 2009, it's now one of those terms that's essential to any digital marketer on the cutting edge (or for anyone who wants to sound like one). Curation has now come to mean the act of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a coherent way, organized around a specific topic(s). If you're a web veteran, you're probably wondering how this is any different than what people have been doing online for years. So what's the big deal about curation? Making curation work for your brand is a lot easier said than done.
People matter. Google’s Gingras: ‘The future of journalism can and will be better than its past’ The following address was given by Richard Gingras, director of news and social products at Google, as the opening keynote of the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) on August 9, 2012 in Chicago.
I’m honored by the opportunity to speak here tonight. When it comes to the future of journalism, there is no more important audience than the one in this room. It is you who will nurture, guide, and enable those who invent journalism’s future. We can talk tonight about the emerging news ecosystem. We can discuss its many emerging attributes. Allow me to note a few points of context about me. I am a technologist. These are extraordinary times. Looking just at the social dimension, let’s also note that it is also only in its infancy. One realization is that social is not just about Friends and Family. I started my career decades ago in the comparatively simplistic world of television programming and counter-programming.
Where Google fits. The Copyblogger Content Marketing Codex. Content Curation Primer. Photo by Stuck in Customs What is Content Curation?
Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community. It isn’t unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition: They identify the theme, they provide the context, they decide which paintings to hang on the wall, how they should be annotated, and how they should be displayed for the public. Content curation is not about collecting links or being an information pack rat, it is more about putting them into a context with organization, annotation, and presentation. People and organizations are now making and sharing media and content all over the social web.