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03 May 09

If I were a wire or feature editor in a newsroom, instead of waiting to become obsolete, I would start immediately learning how to be a top notch web curator. I’d ask myself — how can I become the Jim Romenesko or Matt Drudge for my community.
Wire and feature editors are already skilled content curators — they just need to adapt those skills to filtering the web.
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- Helping readers find the best of the web could help local news sites remain daily destinations rather than just a host for content to be aggregated by someone else — which could help those news operations get back into the content distribution business, which is how they made money in print, and how they could make a lot more money on the web.
- Thinking about information overload isn’t accurately describing the problem; thinking about filter failure is.
- Yet there is a HUGE opportunity in this shifting landscape. Just because there’s a wealth of content a click away doesn’t mean that news consumers know where to click in order to find it.
  
  Instead, we have what Clay Shirky describes as “filter failure”:
- On the Internet, we have no need of wire editors; if we wish to have wire content on our websites, we can plug in AP Hosted News