Tell your social media-rich story with Storify | Articles. The Stream's stories - storify.com. The Future of Media: Storify and the Curatorial Instinct: Tech News and Analysis « NYT Editor Says It’s Only Journalism When He Does It: Tech News and Analysis « Updated: If you’re a traditional journalist, or someone who works for a traditional media outlet, the easiest way to cast aspersions at a digital media entity is to use the A word: that is, “aggregation.” New York Times executive editor Bill Keller stayed true to form in a piece he wrote for his newspaper Thursday, in which he categorized The Huffington Post and other unnamed online media outlets as pirates, who are in the business of “counterfeiting” content rather than engaging in “real” journalism.
In only a few paragraphs, the NYT editor managed to say volumes about how little he understands where media is, or where it is going. Keller’s piece starts out as a humble discussion of his status as the 50th most powerful person in the world (according to Forbes magazine) and how he thinks this is absurd, since he just runs a newspaper. And what does the term aggregation mean? That seems to depend on who does it. Arianna Huffington Is that aggregation? Storify Collects Strands of News on the Social Web.