News curators must collect, summarize, make sense, add value, attribute, link, intrigue and entice.
Digital First Media announced today that Julie Westfall will lead our curation team, joined by Angi Carter and Karen Workman.
I am delighted with our selections for this team and look forward to working with them as they explore and demonstrate what a news curation team should be.
Mandy Jenkins introduces the candidates in her blog. Here I will discuss our expectations for those team members as well as for other Digital First journalists who will curate local content.
Successful curation will make sense on its own if you don’t click through to any of the content you are curating, but will entice many people to click through and read or watch more. Finding and presenting the collected content is important, but effective curation boosts the experience of each of the pieces by presenting multiple pieces in a context that enhances your understanding of each piece. (more…)
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