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Vadim Lavrusik: Curation and amplification will become much more sophisticated in 2012 » Nieman Journalism Lab
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.
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 « BuzzMachine
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 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. So it’s great to see that The Register Citizen, will devote one of the 18 positions in its newsroom to curating the Web about and for Torrington, Connecticut,
Journalism and curation: A small-town news organization leads the way | Knight Digital Media Center
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 | Techdirt
from the don't-knock-it dept 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:
Tweet First, Verify Later? Real-time web, Social Media Curation and Verification « nicoblog
Here it is the research project I’ve worked on during my fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford Nicola Bruno, an Italian journalist specialising in digital media and technology and its effect on journalism, has written a fascinating research paper on how mainstream media used social media in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake in January 2010. In his study entitled, ‘Tweet first , verify later?
There is a trend evolving at media companies both big and small that promises to have a remarkably positive impact on what you read, watch, and share on the web: Curation. It's not a popular thing to say that things are okay in media. In fact, the changes taking place are useful, necessary, and will in short order result in better editorial experiences, because as shown in the press daily, the sky is falling in old media. But, happily, the future is right around the corner. First, media companies need to shed their historic connection to their delivery systems.
Can 'Curation' Save Media?
Is This the World’s Best Twitter Account? : CJR
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. 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. There are few established rules or journalistic policies for what he does. Just as Carvin is breaking ground in curation and crowdsourced verification, he is at the same time encountering new ethical conundrums that must be managed, as with everything else, in real-time.
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 Tech
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 | The Economist
At one level, this comment just looks silly. The page at the Atlantic that it links to, which is a list of useful resources for following the Japan earthquake, doesn't "cover" the news. The sources it links to do that. If nobody wrote "here's what happened", nobody would be able to say "here's how to follow the story". But the serious point is that "aggregation" or "curation" of other people's coverage is becoming recognised more and more as one of the indispensable elements of journalism. You might say that you don't need to be a journalist to cobble together a list of links.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. This was the stomping ground for the Beatnicks, and some myths even locate the origin of the name to Specs'. North Beach still carries this culture of engagement, its warren of small streets, cafes, family restaurants, encourages debate and discussion.
First Meeting Of SFCurators Salon... - SVW
Consuming News in the Age of Curation
There is a lot of noise online at the moment and finding good content is tough. We all have about 3 or 4 sites where we stop to reade news and entertainment every day but increasingly our media consumption is coming to us via curated sources like our own personal networks. There has been a huge shift from the old model where “gatekeepers” dictated what content we consumed and how we accessed it a new model in which curation plays the primary roll. Caught in the cross hairs are the old media institutions, but as consumers we are winning because not only do we have access to larger amounts of content in real time but the smart people are curating it through a variety of sources to match their needs and they are doing so largely for free. So what role is curation playing and what are the implications for the media world at large?Andy Carvin is a senior strategist at NPR working on digital media. He's known for putting together comprehensive and innovative packages around breaking news stories, and for the past three weeks, his Twitter stream has been a non-stop curation of the Egypt protests. Carvin has turned himself into "a personal news wire for Egypt."