Today Digital First Media announced its new curation team: Julie Westfall (formerly of KPCC.org) will lead the team, and “DFM local superstars” Angela Carter and Karen Workman, will be moving to new roles as curators. Meanwhile, DFM Director of Community Engagement & Social Media Steve Buttry published a detailed list of best practices for curation…

What’s a “curation team?” According to DFM’s earlier posting for these positions, these jobs involve “curating content from DFM properties and elsewhere that would be of national and regional interest, and then making that content available to all DFM sites.”

On a smaller scale, local and niche news sites could easily adopt a similar approach to add daily context and value to their communities—either via their existing digital presences, or a spin-off additional website (or part of a site).

Also today, Steve Buttry published a detailed list of best practices for news curation. Topics covered:

• Link and attribute.
• Curators must add value.
• Different types of curation.
• Vetting, verifying and correcting.

Buttry’s post also links to additional resources and tips on curation.

The News for Digital Journalists blog is made possible by a grant to USC Annenberg from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

By Amy Gahran, 07/19/12 at 9:25 am
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