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News Consumption & User Behavior – Tips for Content Curators

Two studies, one by “The online Journalism Review” and the other by “Pew Research” investigate how users interact with news online. We want to investigate how these findings make the case for News Curation, and how news curators can benefit from these findings. Pew Research Study (How users find and interact with news online) This study investigates user behaviors by tracking 25 top news sites and finds that news consumers can be divided into two distinct groups as follows: Casual users – people who visit just a few times per month and spend only a few minutes at a site over that time span Power users – people who return more than 10 times per month to a given site and spend more than an hour there over that time – Further Only six of the top news sites show power users in double digits (CNN 17.8%, Fox News 16.4%, Yahoo 14%, AOL 13.4%, Google 12.6%, MSNBC 11.1%) It is apparent from this research that most people do not Follow News Religiously. This fact fact implies that when users receive news, they tend to form opinions that are influenced by the narrative and not the context. Therefore, curated news pages that let people discover different points of view, and investigate the news in context offer a excellent opportunity to elevate the conversation. In other words, a curated news page lets users check in at their leisure and catch up with events in context. Where news sites need to constantly update users with the latest news, News Curation Sites will be able to provide context and inform users by organizing and maintaining news from multiple sites in one place. The next study sheds light on user habits and the best format for serving up curated pages. How people seek information This study gets into users interaction with news pages by using eye track video to monitor the participant’s attention by frequency and duration. The intent of this research is to suggest design practices for “curatorial” pages.  The study makes the following conclusions: Most parsed sections (areas where most attention and time was spent) Summary (100%) Articles about (70.4%) Multimedia (58%) What was Clicked 42% were headlines only 24.6% were a headline and story abstract 14.4% were a headline, abstract and photo What  was it about the item that made them click 81% cited information in the headline 27% cited a photo 21% cited information the abstract Considering the fact most people do not follow news religiously and when they do they mostly look at headlines and summaries suggests that news curation sites should optimize presentation and navigation of headlines in context to provide value! Most topic curation products let the curators editorialize (change and modify) article headlines and summaries. Curators will differentiate their art by the way they manage and maintain their curated articles through headlines, summaries and tags. Following are three examples of curated content on the KBucket platform. KBucket’s vision and mission is to provide curation tools empowering authors to organize and manage hundreds of links on one page. Based on these two studies you be the judge as to the effectiveness of these curated pages. Occupy Wall Street Middle East – Iranian Green Movement, Arab Spring and more Elections 2016 – Ongoing news curation on current events You can register and post your curated research on the KBucket.com platform for free. Get wither Kurator, for Chrome, or KBrowser for Firefox to get started.

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