The term “curated” is gaining a lot of currency as a way to describe how journalists can think about what they can bring to online information. Mindy McAdams explains how this links to traditional notions of museum curating. (Found this initially on Jay Rosen’s Twitter feed.)

David Westphal, longtime editor and former McClatchy Washington bureau chief, details why some editors, publishers and owners — not to mention the president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors — are discussing some ways that philanthropists could subsidize public interest journalism.

Ways that digital search tools can accelerate tough investigative reporting are examined in this excellent article by John Mecklin, who describes himself as “a grumpy old investigative reporter.”

Columbia Journalism Review has an excellent piece on how journalists might productively think about information overload. It makes a number of points, including these: Information overload can lead to a “learned helplessness” response. Many news media are contributing to this learned helplessness rather than helping their users; they’re diminishing the value of the information they [...]