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The importance of social networks for mass media professionals, especially for news librarians –whose traditional intermediary role limited their visibility to users– is explained. Examples of documentation centres and news librarians’ profiles in social media like weblogs, [...]

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Due to both the digitization of press archives and the current financial, economic and journalistic recession, news libraries in online journalism need to re-invent themselves. While performing their traditional tasks, news librarians are developing new skills so that their activity [...]

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The documentary criteria that researchers and professionals think are essential for assessing Internet information sources and for implementing these sources in news libraries are presented. Results of a Delphi study conducted in 2013 with eight experts in news librarianship and a [...]

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The article presents a survey research in 10 documentation centres of Spanish television stations. The authors analyze first the current situation of television documentation tasks after digitization, and the emergence of journalists participation in some of these tasks. Second, we [...]

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Based on a systematic review of the literature on journalistic content curation and news librarianship, the paper puts forward a clarification of the two concepts. Profiles for each of the two disciplines are set out, together with common aspects for comparison to identify their similarities [...]

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Based on a systematic review of the literature on journalistic content curation and news librarianship, the paper puts forward a clarification of the two concepts. Profiles for each of the two disciplines are set out, together with common aspects for comparison to identify their similarities [...]