Curating news
NEWSCURATION

cu•ra•tor(from Latin cura, care), means
manager,overseer, one who has the care andsuperintendence of something

“ The editor who sits
in a big building at the New York Times or your local newspaper that chooses what content you’ll see in your newspaper is a
curator. So is the page designer who decides what story is at the top of the page - Robert Scoble

INFO MOLECULES

INFO MOLECULES

INFO MOLECULES

INFO MOLECULES

INFO MOLECULES

INFO MOLECULESA curator is an
information chemist. He or she mixes atoms togetherin a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule.

HOWNEWSCURATE TO - The Seven
Needs of Real-Time Curators, Robert Scoble

1BUNDLE

2REORDER

3DISTRIBUTE

4EDITORIALIZE

“ ANYONE CAN COLLECT LINKS,
AND ALGORITHMS CAN AGGREGATE. BUT ONLY TRAINED EDITORS HAVE THE SKILLS TO SELECT AND COLLECT THE BEST
INFORMATION “ AND BUILD A LOYAL AUDIENCE. - MARK BRIGGS, JOURNALISM NEXT

5UPDATE Upd V ated ersi
on!

6PARTICIPATE

7TRACK

7TRACK

CURATIONEXAMPLES

THE REVOLUTIONWILL BE TWEETED TWITTER
CURATION: NPR’S ANDY CARVIN

THE REVOLUTIONWILL BE TWEETED TWITTER
CURATION: NPR’S ANDY CARVIN

NPR’S ANDY CARVIN

TWITTER CURATION USING A WIDGET

CURATING TWITTER CONTENT WITH PAPER.LI

CURATING TWITTER CONTENT WITH PAPER.LI

Storify: pulls in content from
Twitter, Facebook, Flickr & YouTube and generates a story based on real-time information from these networks

IN-CLASS WORKCURATING TWEETSADD A TWITTER
LIST & SEARCH WIDGET TO YOUR BLOG

HOW TO CREATE ATWITTER LIST
• GO TO YOUR PROFILE • CLICK ON LISTS • CLICK CREATE A LIST • NAME IT • NAVIGATE TO PROFILE OF USER YOU WANT TO ADD
• CLICK ON • CHECK BOX TO ADD

WHEN DONE, GO TO TWITTER
WIDGETS PAGE, SELECT THE LIST, FILL OUT INFO, GRAB CODE & EMBED ON BLOG