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Are aggregation and curation journalism? Wrong question — GigaOm →

“There seems to be a growing obsession with defining what journalism is, and who deserves (or doesn’t deserve) to be called a journalist. Is the man who live-blogged the Osama bin Laden assassination a journalist? Is National Public Radio’s Andy Carvin, who has been using Twitter as a one-man newswire during the Arab Spring, a journalist? Some mainstream journalists would answer no to both of those questions, but by doing so they miss the larger point, which is that in both cases, information is provided that increases our knowledge about an important topic.

…Smart curation may actually serve that goal better than so-called ‘original reporting.’ The question that matters is whether it serves the reader.”

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