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Newsletter editors: the new newsroom power players

The inexorable rise of newsletters – and the newsletter editor: Publishers are rediscovering that email newsletters are a reliable way to reach readers — and serve a critically important direct connection to

Twitter is revamping its custom timelines

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Twitter is revamping its custom timelines

Twitter is revamping its custom timelines Twitter is making some changes to its embeddable custom timelines, a useful curation-and-publication tool: As a result, the new timeline has a clean, modern

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Commonplace Reading: curated reads for an indulgent weekend

Would you like a selection of great online journalism to read at your leisure over the weekend? Well, that’s exactly what I’m now offering you via Commonplace Reading,

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Meta-curating the death of David Bowie

Curation is the new obituary: 8 ways media outlets marked Bowie’s life and death Paul Bradshaw: The media’s reaction to David Bowie‘s death from cancer early this morning demonstrates just how widely curation has become in journalism practice – and specifically, how

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Why Apple created its News app

Apple’s Eddie Cue, speaking to CNN’s Brian Stelter: “We’ve only created the apps that we think everyone uses every day… We really wanted to create a single

Curation begins where the algorithm ends

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Curation begins where the algorithm ends

Jean-Louis Gassée: But ask a computer scientist for the meaning of meaning, for an algorithm that can extract the meaning of a sentence and you will either elicit a blank

Can Apple Music save a middle-aged man from the music of his youth?

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Can Apple Music save a middle-aged man from the music of his youth?

Apple Music arrived last night, and with it Beats 1 – a new, global music channel. And I’m not just quite hopeful that it’ll be god; I’ve been

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The role of blogs in the age of media overload

Fascinating read in the wake of Andrew Sullivan’s closure of The Dish, in which Ira Stoll explores the present and future of blogging: And while the ability to produce opinion quickly can be abused, blogs provide the kind of connection and curation that

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Financial Times ups its morning e-mail game: FirstFT

Slightly baffling e-mail from the Financial Times press team this morning: Financial Times readers can now receive the FT’s daily top picks of global news, comment and analysis from around the web by signing up to FirstFT. Concise and engaging, this free email

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Maria Popova of Brain Pickings on attention and journalism

Here’s a fascinating interview with Maria Popova, curator of the truly excellent Brain Pickings blog. Some choice highlights: I can’t speak for others, but I’ve found in myself a tendency to retreat deeper and deeper into my existing interests as a

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Is curation the future of journalism? (Flipboard)

I’ve not tried out embedding a Flipboard magazine on here yet: View my Flipboard Magazine. And now I have. My life is richer, somehow.

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Flipping LeWeb

I’m curating the best of the LeWeb Official Bloggers’ posts in a Flipboard magazine, along with anything else that’s interesting that I come across. If you’re a Flipboard reader, subscribe for a great lean-back experience.

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Twitter welcomes careful curators

Twitter launches custom timelines: Custom timelines are an entirely new type of timeline — one that you create. You name it, and choose the Tweets you want to add to it, either by hand or programmatically using the API (more on that below). This means

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What curation says about you

Last week, the student journalists on the MA courses at City University heard from Paul Bradshaw about curation in the journalist sense. Since then, I’ve been working in the online “labs” with them on the idea. This post from Euan Semple neatly sums

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Event coverage on Flipboard

This is a neat idea: There’s a lot happening at Disrupt SF. So much so that it cannot be consumed on just one site. Produced daily at 6:00pm PDT (right after the last panel of the day) a new Flipboard magazine will