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. Better, stronger, faster. Okay, putting “Six Million Dollar Man” theme aside, I do believe every word of that. For the last year, much of the focus has been on curating content from the social web and effectively contextualizing disparate pieces of information to form singular stories.
Because anyone can publish content today and report information from a breaking news event, the role journalists can play in amplifying — and verifying — that content becomes ever more important. What does that mean? Curation itself will continue to evolve and become more sophisticated. But the mentality of content curation needs to evolve, as well. The coming year will see a more balanced approach. Image by Hans Poldoja used under a Creative Commons license. 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. They decide what goes in the paper (on what page), on the radio or TV (at what time) or on the homepage of our websites. All useful functions. But the traditional role of a curator is much larger than simply that of collector and organizer. What might this look like? 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. Restructuring the newsroom organisation This prompted the development of a new structure based on three key groups: creation, curation and community. 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. On the topic of free speech, Costolo noted the many different laws around the world, and the “enormous number of people and resources assigned to” dealing with them at Twitter. “You can’t come up with a one size fits all solution to it,” he said.
In terms of internal resources, Bell asked Costolo how many employees now work at Twitter. Bell then casually asked about revenues. Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship. 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.
While Twitter can certainly be both, it’s inherently neither. And trying to classify it within one or both of these conventional checkboxes completely misses the point that we might, in fact, have to invent an entirely new checkbox. I, of course, make no claim to using Twitter as it “should” be used. Twitter as discovery Like any appropriated buzzword, the term “curation” has become nearly vacant of meaning. And lest we forget, text itself is an invention, a technology. 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.) (And aren’t you proud of me for not drawing the obvious and embarrassing comparison to Times editor Bill Keller’s Luddite trolling about Twitter even as his man in Twitter, Stelter, proves what a valuable tool it is?) * At South by Southwest, the Guardian’s folks talked about their steller live-blogging.
. * Of course, I need to point to Andy Carvin’s tweeting and retweeting of the Arab Spring. So what is an article? An article can be a luxury. Journalism and curation: A small-town news organization leads the way. 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, Think about it. Substitute the word Editing for Curating. 1. 2. 3. 4. Publisher Matt DeRienzo notes that the Torrington organization (formerly known as a newspaper), is already partnering with local bloggers and niche sites.
“The curator position will help us share that work with our audience, and make sense of the exploding range of information sources out there,” DeRienzo said in announcing the appointment of staffer Jenny Golfin as the curator. Are you curating on your news site? Say hello to Encyclo, our new encyclopedia of the future of news. 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. We’ve got big and small, everything from The New York Times and The Guardian to The Batavian and Alaska Dispatch. If you’re a regular Lab reader (or if you follow us on Twitter), you know that every day we’re producing reporting, analysis, and commentary on how the world of journalism is changing. But our main work emphasizes new developments and the latest news. Anatomy of an entry For each entry, you’ll find the following: And that’s just what Encyclo is today. Thank yous. 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. " Curators -- who "'cover' the news by sorting, verifying and editing live everything good existing on the web and in the media. They make link journalism, they make the news more accessible. " Unfortunately, for the most part, newspapers seem to look down on "curating" as if it's some sort of lesser form of journalism, and this is a sticking point that they're going to need to get past if they want to understand how people engage with the news today.
Tweet First, Verify Later? Real-time web, Social Media Curation and Verification « nicoblog. Maggio 5, 2011 alle 1:28 pm | Pubblicato su Il nuovo mondo | 11 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 Summary by RISJ 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. How is the Twitter effect changing the coverage of crisis events around the world? Nicola focuses his attention on the online coverage of the Haiti Earthquake in three mainstream online media outlets: bbc.com, Guardian.co.uk, and cnn.com.
Mi piace: Mi piace Caricamento... Can 'Curation' Save Media? 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. 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.
Prodding his followers to help him understand the context of a video: The Future of Media: Storify and the Curatorial Instinct: Tech News and Analysis « 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. That's changing. Nicholas Negroponte foreshadowed the current state of things back in 1995 with the "Daily Me," a customized news experience, but it's only been over the last 18 months that his idea has manifested itself via mainstream products and services.
They all work differently. That same concept is at the core of the Twitter-focused start-up Sulia. More from Fortune: SXSW blog, day three: Meet the curators. A mini-course on infotention - howardrheingold's posterous. First Meeting Of SFCurators Salon... 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. This was the stomping ground for the Beatnicks, and some myths even locate the origin of the name to Specs'. I liked the format: instead of listening to a guest speaker we got to listen to each other. Here are my co-founders: 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? Tastemakers Professional Curators Crowd Curation Good Journalists Need To Be Paid What Is The Future Of Curation? Curating the Revolution: Building a Real-Time News Feed About Egypt - Phoebe Connelly - Technology. 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. " We talked with him about how he gained 4,000 followers, why he hasn't mapped his sources, and if curation is the new journalism. PC: This is not your first dive into deep social media coverage of a breaking event. AC: I've live-tweeted and live-blogged for a long time: 7-8 years as far as live-blogging is concerned, and four years for Twitter, especially during the '08 presidential election.
Regarding this particular story, I've known North African bloggers for a number of years, especially in Tunisia but in Egypt as well, so I already had an idea about who some of the online players were, and their particular interests and goals. PC: Hrm. PC: Wow! AC: Heh. The new newsroom | Think Like an Editor.