Mindy McAdams has a great post about “curation” as a journalistic function. One of the important new roles for journalists seems to be curator. Here is here list of what Mindy says curators do:

1. Selection of the best representatives:

2. Culling

3. Provide context

4. Arrangement of individual objects:

5. Organization of the whole

6. Expertise

7. Updating

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