Content curation in journalism (and journalistic documentation)

The last years we have seen the appearance of concepts such as content curation and content curator as, respectively, the activity or system and the professional or specialist. Although the term is originally linked to the world of marketing, -considering marketer’s Rohit Bhargava “Manifesto for the content curator” (2009) as its founding article-, and its features mostly identify with those of the Information Science professional, content curation goes beyond a specific discipline or professional role. Both profiles of marketers and librarians-information scientists can of course become content curators, but also others, as for example educators. And, as is the case we are dealing with here, journalists (and press documentalists), because in this short article we are focusing on presenting the role of content curation in the area of journalism.