SXSW blog, day three: Meet the curators | The Economist
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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. But actually, given the huge proliferation of sources these days, you do. Being able to scan a vast range of material, determine what’s reliable, relevant and sufficiently objective, decide what will actually interest your particular readers and arrange it in a way that they can use are not trivial skills.