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Vadim Lavrusik: Curation and amplification will become much more sophisticated in 2012
Ladies and gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build a sustainable journalism model. Better than it was before.
Towards a Better Definition of Curation in Journalism | Adam Schweigert
The role of the curator in journalism has become intertwined with the notion of aggregation: collecting information from various sources and piecing it together into a (hopefully, more or less) coherent whole. The better curators of news often take this a step further and help to situate the resulting information object in a broader context, but just as often the “curation” (more correctly: aggregation) of information is, itself, the end result. And this form of aggregation is, of course, not necessarily a bad thing. Far from it. The collection and arrangement of information has been a concern of journalism for…oh, about as long as there has been journalism. Editors tell us to look at this, not that.
Creation, curation and community: How the Seattle Times restructured to ensure survival
Back in 2009 the Seattle Times was reported as being in a "dire position". Time magazine reported sources at the time who said that even in the face of the closure of competitor newspaper the Post Intelligencer, which moved online-only , the future of the Seattle Times was far from certain. But today, three years later, the newspaper has more than doubled web traffic, raised the cover price by 40 per cent and seen circulation revenue grow. So how did it get here? Speaking at the World Editors Forum in Kiev today, executive editor and senior vice president for the Seattle Times David Boardman explained the key elements of the strategy that has seen it transform into a multi-platform newsroom which puts its mantra - "news you can't get anywhere else, when, where and how you want it" - at the heart of its practices and organisation.
Twitter CEO says curation tools for newsrooms are coming
“So, how does it feel to be the voice of the press in the 21 century?,” Emily Bell asked Twitter CEO Dick Costolo during a keynote interview Friday at the Online News Association Conference in San Francisco. “I don’t view that as my job, of course,” he said. “When I said I think of Twitter as a tech company in a media business, I chose my words very intentionally there. Tech companies’ primary responsibility is creating a platform … A company trying to build media is creating or curating content, and that’s not kind of company we’re creating.” “We are in media business because we sell ads,” he continued.
Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
Editor’s Note : Maria Popova is the editor of Brain Pickings , a curation of “cross-disciplinary interestingness” that scours the world of the web and beyond for share-worthy tidbits. Here, she considers how new approaches to curation are changing the way we consume and share information. Last week, Megan Garber wrote an excellent piece on whether Twitter is speech or text. Yet despite a number of insightful and timely points, I’d argue there is a fundamental flaw with the very dichotomy of the question.The article as luxury or byproduct
A few episodes in news make me think of the article not as the goal of journalism but as a value-added luxury or as a byproduct of the process. * See the amazing Brian Stelter covering the Joplin tornado and begging his desk at The Times to turn his tweets into a story because he had neither the connectivity nor the time to do it in the field and, besides, he was too busy doing something more precious: reporting. (It’s a great post, a look at a journalist remaking his craft. Highly recommended for journalists and journalism students particularly.)
April 20, 2011 {*style:<b> Traditional news organizations have been slow to take to curating content from other news sources on the Web. It can be valuable service that strengthens their role as a central place to find news and information. But I think the news industry’s rather uninformed loathing of aggregation has held all but a few back.
Journalism and curation: A small-town news organization leads the way
Say hello to Encyclo, our new encyclopedia of the future of news » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
Today, the Nieman Journalism Lab unveils Encyclo , an encyclopedia of the future of news. We’ve put a lot of work into it, and I hope you’ll check it out. So what is Encyclo? It’s an attempt to figure out who the most important players and innovators are in the evolution of journalism — and to provide a centralized source for background, context, and the latest news about them. As of this writing, Encyclo is 184 entries on online news sites, newspapers, magazines, broadcast networks, technology companies, and more.
The Role Of Curation In Journalism
Jay Rosen points us to an article out of France that takes a stab at presenting what a modern internet-era newsroom should look like . The point that I find most interesting, that helped clarify a few different ideas for me, is that it splits "journalism" into three distinct categories, all of which have a role in the newsroom: Reporters -- who go out and do first person reporting -- creating original stories, not just reposting rewritten wire copy. Columnists -- who "start conversations and give stories another perspective."
Tweet First, Verify Later? Real-time web, Social Media Curation and Verification « nicoblog
maggio 5, 2011 alle 1:28 pm | Pubblicato in Il nuovo mondo | 14 commenti Here it is the research project I’ve worked on during my fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford Download PDF
Is This the World’s Best Twitter Account?
Yesterday morning NPR’s Andy Carvin took a break from running one of the world’s best Twitter accounts to explain what it’s like to be a living, breathing real-time verification system. “All of this is more art than science,” he said. In truth, it sounds equal parts exhilarating and exhausting. As has been repeatedly detailed in other places , Carvin is the NPR senior strategist who transformed his Twitter feed into a must-read newswire about the changes taking place in the Arab world. Carvin sends hundreds of tweets a day that, taken together, paint a real-time picture of events, opinions, controversies, and rumors relates to events in the Middle East.The Future of Media: Storify and the Curatorial Instinct: Tech News and Analysis «
The explosion of real-time information through social networks and information services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube has produced a never-ending firehose of content. It has also created an opportunity for tools such as Storify, the curation service that launched as an open beta Monday . Although the aggregation and filtering of the news is something that has traditionally been done by journalists and major media brands, tools like Storify allow anyone to perform the same kind of function, regardless of whether she’s been trained as a journalist — or even think of what she’s doing as journalism. Storify is a relatively simple-looking tool that allows a user to pull in content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and other social-media services and create a kind of story stream.News curation: finally, social media's killer app?
FORTUNE -- Even the most casual social network user will admit that the Facebook or Twitter experience can be overwhelming -- that merciless stream of status updates and shared content, which sometimes feels less like a stream and more like a deluge, waits for no man, woman, or Web crawler. Of course, there's good reason to feel that way: Facebookers share 30-billion plus pieces of information each month, and Twitter users output 1 billion tweets weekly. There's a tremendous amount of digital information floating around and few great solutions for filtering it, making sense of it, and consuming it.SXSW blog, day three: Meet the curators
A TWEET that recently got quite a bit of traction (over 100 retweets), including among the SXSW audience, was this one : @robinsloan The way to cover big news in 2011 is not "here's what happened." It's "here's how to follow the story" http://t.co/sMqGOuh At one level, this comment just looks silly.Posted by Tom Foremski - April 15, 2011 Last Thursday was the inaugural meeting of SFCurators Salon in North Beach and I couldn't be more happier about the turnout (see below). I set up the group with my colleague Oliver Starr as a place where like-minded people could discuss the topic of curation, which has become a hot topic this year as search falters, and as curation tools and services come out of beta and into more mainstream use. (Please see: Pearltrees Reaches Key Milestones: Largest Curation Community - SVW ) The meeting was held in Specs', a bar that happens to also be a funky museum. The location in North Beach, just across the street from City Lights Bookstore and Vesuvio, always conjures up for me the great intellectual and literary traditions of the area.