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Describing the personalized aggregation service Trove as a "next generation" news experience, The Washington Post's Vijay Ravindran figures it probably won't save journalism on its own, but it's a start.

Personalized news is a new trend that makes the reader more informed as well as making news obtaining easier for the reader.

Google has been experimenting with personalizing Google News, and MediaPost got a look at the proposed layout Friday. The Mountain View, Calif. search engine has been running tests on the design of Google News for the past several months.

In this article, we will cover the personalized content approach and in particular reddit. We will describe the technical details and compare existing personalized content solutions.

This is an example of personalization of news and how a website is attempting to accomplish this.

Apparently, this google site is going to help personalize peoples news by providing a quiz to each new user that signs up. By answering questions on the quiz, google will send them adds and information relating to them

"Stop searching and get only what you care about. Zite delivers the best of your favorite magazines, newspapers, authors, blogs, and videos." An example of an app that personalizes the news.

If traditional media was all about broadcasting - distributing a one-size-fits-all message to a wide audience, usually via a platform controlled by the media - new media is more about personalization and customization. In other words, the quest for a "Daily Me." But it's still unclear how exactly we're going to get there. Two new entrants - a service called Trove and an iPad app called News.me - have joined the horde of players who are trying to answer that question, and they have taken very different approaches.

Pandora is a HUGE customization site. It's how the company is so successful. this article talks about how Pandora and another company combined to release personalized radio for business. This customization really appeals to a lot of people.

this is relevant to our topic because it gives a side of the news and a study on how many people actually use personalization.

"Reddit landed a personal appearance by the President of the United States on Wednesday when Barack Obama stopped by for one of the site's "Ask Me Anything" interviews - an event that further adds to the web community's reputation as an alternative source of journalism."

I work at the Poynter Institute, where I teach and advise all kinds of journalists, including professionals, activists, amateurs, the Fourth Estate and the Fifth Estate, to tell stories and provide information that supports democracy. Here's our website: www.poynter.org Here's my faculty page: http://about.poynter.org/about-us/our-people/kelly-mcbride Here's my personal website: www.kellymcbride.com

"The world of journalism isn't burning. The Internet is killing the old model, yes, but the new models are only starting to emerge. That's not destruction. It's change. And as brutal as that transition is at times, it's exciting to be a journalist right now to see how the change will play out. In the meantime, things will be messy for a while. The furor over things like Parker's wedding, the rush to judgment and subsequent retractions, the public lynchings on Twitter, the boiling over of conversational media into childish shouting matches, the shoddy reporting drowning out the good, the spurious opinion obscuring the boring old facts - these are going to be a part of the world of journalism. But in time we'll learn from our mistakes. None of this is happening because a journalist is real or fake. The change, and the chaos it's creating, is systemic. It's not personal. And when the dust settles, there will be a better balance between the old model of deeply reported journalism and the newer models of blogged opinion and social-media conversations."

This article is a good source that compares and contrast whether or not blogging can be considered journalism.

This article describes how google redesigned google news and how they are testing it

This article details three social media skills that the author of the blog "10,000 words" believes should be taught in Journalism school. The author believes that Social Media should be brought into the curriculum in these schools. This author's three points are that twitter is a "story machine", live teeting/facebook events is a skill, and that content scheduling is king. In my opinion, these three points are very interesting, and important in terms of the future of education.

"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek is retracing on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 21,000-mile, seven-year odyssey that begins in Ethiopia and ends in Tierra del Fuego. This site houses our experimental journalism, cartography and educational initiatives. By the year 2020, the Out of Eden Walk will have accumulated an unprecedented chronicle of human life on Earth, 2,500 generations after our restless forebears set out on the long, slow walk into our becoming - a journey out of Eden that continues to this day. Every 100 miles (160 km) Paul is making a concise digital record of his location - a narrative Milestone. Each consists of a visual panorama, photographs of the ground and sky, ambient sound at that location, and a brief, standardized interview with the nearest person. Milestones are a slow accumulation of narrative data sets, a consistent record collected at nomad's pace on a global scale. What will they ultimately tell us about ourselves?"

Google News is also doing a lot of thinking about the best ways to personalize news content for its users. The product currently makes use of two main types of customization, Rohe notes: the explicit and the implicit. Explicit personalization is the kind Google News emphasized in last year's redesign, the kind that asks users to tell Google their interests so their news results can be appropriately tailored. But you don't always know what you like. So, starting this April, signed-in Google News users in the U.S. began seeing stories in their "News for You" feeds that were based not on their stated preferences, but on their behavior: their news-related web historie