Content curation and open information sources for communicators: strategic relationships in quality journalism

Abstract

Content curation and open sources of information are two aspects that can be joined to serve quality journalism. Open sources can be one of journalists’ main instruments in conjunction with other types of sources, and they have their own advantages and characteristics. For its part, content curation provides a strategic framework for the use of these open sources in an especially efficient manner.

KEYWORDS: content curation, news curation, journalistic curation, information sources, open sources, news aggregators, social networks.