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While it's become easier for journalists to find information, discover sources through the web, and use tools like Storify to curate content, the process still relies on having the bodies to scour for this information. And that's the challenge. In the newspaper industry, there were more than 13,000 newsroom jobs lost between 2006 and 2010, according to Pew's State of the News Media report. At the same time, the amount of information available has grown at an astronomical rate. These two things are at odds.

Curation seems to be the big buzz word in journalism and online content these days. It's also an area that's generating a lot of product innovations. New services such as Keepstream, Storify, Storyful and Qrait are jumping into the space, aiming to offer new tools to help people curate web and social media content. Curation is a way for journalists and bloggers to help the public make sense of the overwhelming amount of information out there by carefully selecting the interesting bits and pieces and by providing context. In this new information environment, the thinking goes, we need fellow humans to make sense and filter for us. For me, curation is part of the all-important process of telling stories and connecting people around these stories. Storytelling is about involving people, finding out new information and providing context so people can find out why that particular story is meaningful to the

Become part of the Public Insight Network and join 90,000 people like you who help improve, deepen and diversify reporting at American Public Media and our partner newsrooms. We'll ask you to share your observations, insights and experience. We then pass on your information to reporters and editors who may follow up with a request for more information, or perhaps an interview. Or, with your permission, they may post your insights directly to the web. It's a great way to share what you know. So open up. And add your insight to the news coverage that millions of people count on every day.

We may think of our tweets as real-time snippets of information. But collectively, tweets tell stories - about media scandals, natural disasters, political speeches and more. Over time, these stories become part of an important historical record - one that's made up of a multitude of voices, opinions and ideas. If journalism is the "rough draft of history," Twitter is the "raw draft of history" - imperfect and less polished, but important nonetheless.

This article talk about how tweets from other people can have a large impact and can contribute to history.

Personalized news is a new trend that makes the reader more informed as well as making news obtaining easier for the reader.

Ezra Klein's new journalistic venture, Project X, starts with the proposition that news organizations focus too much on what's new and not enough on what's important. What will his alternative look like? A "21st Century encyclopedia" as much as a news site. "We want to think really hard about how to connect not just new information, but to bring it together with important contextual information to create a more thorough source and place to understand the world," Klein said.

This article is a good sources talking about where journalism and blogging are now and where it will be going in the future.

This gives good information about how blogging and journalism are very similar in their definition.

This article details three social media skills that the author of the blog "10,000 words" believes should be taught in Journalism school. The author believes that Social Media should be brought into the curriculum in these schools. This author's three points are that twitter is a "story machine", live teeting/facebook events is a skill, and that content scheduling is king. In my opinion, these three points are very interesting, and important in terms of the future of education.

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism is dedicated to trying to understand the information revolution. We specialize in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press, particularly content analysis. We are non partisan, non ideological and non political. Our goal is to help both the journalists who produce the news and the citizens who consume it develop a better understanding of what the press is delivering, how the media are changing, and what forces are shaping those changes. We have emphasized empirical research in the belief that quantifying what is occurring in the press, rather than merely offering criticism, is a better approach to understanding.

"if Americans are finding a more polarized reality online, they may have just grown more partisan with less knowledge, making it more important for forums like presidential debates to deal with the details of policy. In the Web 2.0 age, when many Americans see hundreds of articles every day, are we more informed than previous generations were?"

More and more people are using Twitter to get their news and to share the news that touches them. Our Twitter editions are a mash-up of breaking tweets and HuffPost stories that are attracting interest on Twitter, a combination designed to bring you the most important information and liveliest discussions -- in real time -- for each of our sections. The speed and immediacy that Twitter provides -- along with its great variety of voices -- is a great addition to what we are already doing: delivering a unique blend of news, opinion, and community... served up with our distinctive attitude and point of view, and super-charged for Twitter users. This is also a natural extension of something else we've always done: help curate the news. The more information there is out there, the more important it is to have gatekeepers you can trust to bring you the news and fresh takes you need to stay informed. We are launching Twitter editions for each of our 19 sections -- with a front page version slated to go live soon. In every section, our editors have hand-selected the most interesting Twitter accounts for that subject -- Comedy, Politics, Entertainment, Sports, etc, etc -- so you can be sure to get breaking news and on-target analysis as it comes in.

In the two years since our site has launched, we've funded over 160 projects with the help of 5,000 contributors, a fifth of whom contributed more than once. We've done this in collaboration with 95 organizations, and our reporting projects have won eight journalism awards. In short, we're making a difference. Whether it's funding FOIA requests, exposing the lies of a sheriff, or providing a deeper understanding of those less fortunate in our society, the stories we fund make a difference. I earnestly believe in the power of an informed democracy. The guiding principle at Spot.Us is to make the process of journalism more transparent and participatory -- not merely to inform but to engage. Our site is a testament to the notion that people can take ownership over their information needs if there is a platform to support it.

This article provides examples of giving a voice to people that usually don't have one. It shows how people can give their input on a story.

Trove harnesses smart, flexible technology that learns from the choices you make. Some have called it "Pandora for news," and the serendipity in its suggestions, pulled from around 10,000 sources, makes Trove a powerful tool for information discovery.   But it's not just algorithms that drive Trove. Our editors are constantly working to inject the latest news onto the site's home page and into channels of information that users can choose to follow. Meanwhile, our crew of engineers keeps Trove in a state of perpetual evolution.   As a Trove user, you'll have the power to create your own channels, which you can use to follow the people, places, things, and information sources that catch your eye. Starting up your Trove experience is easy; the site uses Facebook Connect to deliver to many users a slate of channels based on their already defined interests

"Reddit, the "front page of the Internet," looks like a bulletin board where users post content and vote whether it is worth reading or not. The range of topics on Reddit swings from cat memes to series news. Its use in covering recent shootings in Toronto, Canada and Aurora, Colorado, led GigaOm's Mathew Ingram to call Reddit a blend of "traditional reporting with crowdsourced reports." In the case of the Aurora movie theatre shooting, people involved in the attack started threads that snowballed into comprehensive accounts of what happened as commenters updated information and brought in new voices, according to Poynter."

""We are in the second phase of disruption, and I think this job is a great place to think about and participate in some of the ways we go forward," he said. "I think the great digital journalism of our age has yet to be created. The cohort that is at Columbia now is the one that will be making the journalism that is going to shape our democracy: working on mining data sets, creating video that is not 2012, coming up with much more powerful ways of accruing and displaying information.""

I work at the Poynter Institute, where I teach and advise all kinds of journalists, including professionals, activists, amateurs, the Fourth Estate and the Fifth Estate, to tell stories and provide information that supports democracy. Here's our website: www.poynter.org Here's my faculty page: http://about.poynter.org/about-us/our-people/kelly-mcbride Here's my personal website: www.kellymcbride.com

" Bit by bit, the understanding was that theatrical values - by which I do not mean fiction - were incredibly important to holding attention, even to conveying information, to creating expectation and then to finally creating a memory. All of those scene-painting skills were the very heart of radio." And they still are. With so many storytelling shows on the air - The Moth, Radiolab, This American Life and, rising quickly, Snap Judgment - here's a question that programs have been dealing with lately in the new "golden age" of public radio: What happens when a story turns out not to be true? Or true-ish? What level of accountability do listeners expect? How is the storyteller's compact with the listener changing?"

Six minute video from the Center for Future Civic Media's "Future of News and Civic Media" conference showcased some of the work done as a part of the Knight News Challenge, focusing on creative ways to provide people with the news and information needed to manage their communities effectively.

This article is a good source that compares and contrast whether or not blogging can be considered journalism.