Why I’d Kill to be the Louvre Curator

I don’t know about you all, but when I hear the word curate, I think of an art museum curator- someone who picks out the pieces of art that will be show in an exhibition of a museum like the Louvre in Paris! But the truth is, there is not much of a difference between an art curator and curating news in the media.  

Curating news in journalism employs the use of a supply-chain process that calls for several different crucial roles; This includes editors, photographers, reporters, and writers, all whose main goal is to organize information gathered by reporters  and deliver it to readers in a cognitive story.   But with the development of social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, news curators have taken a step back from the front lines of journalism and are responding to readers’ needs.  

Because people are able to publish virtually anything they please on the internet, a blackhole of content has been created from the innumerable amount of sources that are online- blogs, social media, mainstream networks, podcasts, and so many more.  This making the job of the news curator essential to news outlets so that the information from the gatherer gets to the seeker without any misconstruction. 

Curators help their readers navigate through the extensive array of material that is accessible, all the while building a sense of trust that draws these readers back time after time.  These people who organize your news intake for you know what they’re looking at because they know their sources, they know their writers, and more importantly, they KNOW what you are looking for when you go searching for specific content. 

So we can see how and why this mediator job of the curator is so essential the media outlets- without them there would be no regulation and mass chaos on the front lines of reporting, making it even harder than it is now for people to sift through what is factual news and what is “fake” news.  

And if you don’t know how to ensure what you’re looking at is factual…check out my later blogs to know how to realize when you’re looking at fake news!