Twitter Hires Editors to Curate News in ‘Bold Change’

Financial Times: Twitter is assembling a group of journalists to curate content on the messaging platform, the latest tech company to push further into the media business. Twitter, which is in the middle of a search for a new CEO, has announced Project Lightning, a feature designed to make it easy for newbies to get to grips with the cascade of tweets on the site. A new team of editors will compile lists that help users find information on live events from music festivals to sports finals and breaking news such as earthquakes or riots. Twitter SVP of product Kevin Weil said this was a “bold change, not evolutionary.”