Being an aviation geek, I just had to do this. I curated different sources of information using Storify which was helpful, though there needs to be alot more work to share such information. If Storify was to make use of theme’s and add on’s to give more control on how one may want the content to look would be greatly helpful. Here is the story so far..http://storify.com/judemwenda/malaysian-airlines
Challenges
If this was to be a fully professional media story, perhaps there would be agreat challenge with verification. Early on there were rumours that the plane landed in Vietnam which was later proved not to be true. There needs to be a better way to annotate such crowdsource information. Storify does not do a lot of justice especially when one want to annotate and add comments to crowdsources stories.
Thanks for mentioning the issue around verification, and this is a perfect story to do that with since there are so many rumors and dead-ends connected to this story. You chose to let the social media content stand on its own rather than offering context or segues, which may have made it read more smoothly. It would be helpful to at the very least translate the French tweet to English.
I agree with the issue around lack of customization of display in Storify. Would be curious to see how professional news organizations are now using Storify.