We did a quick presentation about the “The current state of social news”. We talked about reasons behind the project and some upcoming features.

Here is the presentation for those who couldn’t see it:

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Basically, we believe that everyone who owns a blog and participates in social media sites is a journalist. Per Wikipedia, being a journalist means:

“The gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people”

I bet this sounds just like what you’re doing, right? Today, journalists are “one man shows” not part of large companies anymore. At least, there is a trend towards this model. Although they still exist, I believe large media firms will be less influencal in the future and I believe journalists will freelance and use their popularity on their advantage. A new era of journalists will then evolve.

So what’s “Social news” ?

Social news is you being a journalist. Social news is written by people who care. Social news is all of you who are tired of the old broken system.

So, what’s “broken” ?

Well, first of all, small towns. They’re nowhere to be seen in regular newspapers unless some major crime happens or the last factory closes. Then editors. They tell you want to read. User participation. I guess we can skip that one right off the bat as there is none. No one seems to care about local communities yet most large city are very multicultural. Then how come there’s no ethnic section in most newspapers? Finally, do big media really care? Are journalists paid to report on what they really care about or what the editor wants?

What about blogs?

Well blogs are great to express a one way opinion. People react by commenting on what you just said. However, I think blogs are not meant to spread news. So how about better blogs? Well, it’s getting there but not quite.

So what am I doing?

YulNews is all about fixing this. YulNews is about user submitted headlines, user controlled, anytime, anywhere and any city! But with YulNews, “social news” is not just a product, it’s the basis on which we want to build YOUR community.

So… how can you help?

Well I’d like to hear from you. Tell us what you think about this project and if you want to participate, have ideas, features and so on then please let us know as well.

- The YulNews team