The document presents a proposal for myNews, a personalized news aggregation website. It argues that print media is declining while online and personalized news is the future. MyNews would allow users to customize their own "newspaper" by selecting from a wide range of news sources and topics. This would provide users with constantly updated, easily accessible news tailored to their interests. The proposal seeks grants and advertising to fund the site, aiming to keep it free for users. It argues myNews could appeal to all generations and preserve quality journalism ideals in the new media age.

1. myNews
News That is as Individual As You Are
Presentation By Julianne Fishman

2. The Future of Journalism
✤ The future of journalism is unclear
✤ Print media is becoming a thing of the past
✤ Integrating old media with new media is important
✤ The idea of “the newspaper” needs to be refreshed

3. Why myNews Should be the
Future
✤ People will be able to stay more informed in an easier way
✤ Younger generations will more eager to keep themselves informed
✤ Older generations will discover how easy it is to get the news they
want whenever they want it
✤ News corporations and bloggers can coexist on your personal “front
page”
✤ Classic journalism ideals can be preserved along with enhancement
from new media

4. How Can We Make myNews the
Future?
✤ Grants
✤ The idea behind myNews is to get people interested in the news
again. It is a worthwhile project that deserves funding.
✤ Advertising
✤ After the initial setup of the site, it will require very little
maintenance. Advertising could help to cover the costs of
continuing to run the website properly.
✤ Avoid charging members if possible

5. A “Mutualized Newspaper”
✤ Alan Rusbridger, the editor of Britain’s Guardian newspaper and
website, sees that the the internet is changing journalism into much
more collaborative form. He calls this emerging journalism a
“mutualized newspaper.”
✤ myNews will be a database of internet journalism endeavors that
users can join in order to create their own personal newspaper
✤ myNews is the ultimate “mutualized newspaper”

6. What People Want
✤ News that reflects their personal interests
✤ Instant access to their news
✤ Current, up to the minute updates
✤ The ability to easily share news
✤ To easily discover new things

7. How myNews Will Give People
What They Want
✤ It will provide the ability to access all of your news from a huge
variety of sources
✤ Since your personal newspaper is on the internet it can be accessed
anywhere Wi-Fi or 3G is available
✤ Since the myNews content is aggregated from constantly updated
sites, your personal paper is constantly updated as well
✤ With just a few clicks your news can be shared through your favorite
social networking sites or email

8. Still Giving People What They
Want
✤ In addition to the main idea of customizing your own paper, myNews
will also feature new internet journalism endeavors and act as a
database

9. Who is myNews for?
✤ Anyone who is interested in staying aware
✤ For example, people who:
✤ read the latest headlines
✤ follow sports or the stock market
✤ want the weather or their horoscope
✤ follow bloggers, read Diggs, watch YouTube etc.

10. Meet Gary

11. What’s “news” to Gary?
✤ National headlines
✤ Stock prices
✤ Sports
✤ Popular YouTube videos
✤ Restaurant reviews

12. Meet Jane

13. What’s “news” to Jane?
✤ Gossip headlines
✤ Horoscopes
✤ Weather reports
✤ Movie releases
✤ Fashion news

14. Other Points
✤ myNews applets
✤ Fair use issues
✤ Q&A