CURATION AND AGGREGATION Tools and techniques AGGREGATION Aggregation

CURATION AND AGGREGATION Tools and techniques

AGGREGATION • Aggregation allows you to pull together reports into one place • Aggregation is less about ”weaving a story” and more about presenting sources that tell the story • Aggregation tools include Google News, Feedly, Storify, Twitter, and a host of others • Social media platforms are aggregators as well as content platforms

CURATION: WEAVING A STORY • Curation involves some storytelling, rather than just “aggregation” of sources • To curate, you must have a story idea and be able to execute it • For example: Ron French’s story on Betsy De. Vos

GOOGLE NEWS, GOOGLE TRENDS

TWITTER • Lists • Tools for aggregating • Muckrack. com

TWEETDECK

TWITTER TIMES: YOUR OWN AGGREGATED NEWSPAPER

NUZZLE. CO M: AN APP THAT AGGREGATE S YOUR FRIENDS’ FAVORITES

VERIFY YOUR SOURCES • Remember to use all the tools we learned to VERIFY your sources before using them in an aggregation or curation • Be sure to source and say what the source are as well. • Curation and aggregation does not relieve you of the burden of being accurate and responsible • LET’S LOOK AT EXAMPLES. …

CNN: RIHANNA AND SNAPCHAT

BUZZFEED: WINTER STORM Curation of primary reporting, tweets, links to other sources

10 THINGS TO DO

OK, NOW IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO TRY • Create Twitter account • Create Tweetdeck • Create your own Tweeted Times newspaper, aggregating tweets you select • Create a curated story