“YourChoice”: the news website that makes you part of the story
The scourge of copy-paste, the absence of reliable sources and the luck of trust in information overall are the struggles that every journalist faces in a daily basis. The search for a great story has turned into a nightmare covered with fake news, misinformation and annoying advertisements. We have the answer for that…
By Efi Polizoi, Christos Dimopoulos, Pavlidis Savvas, Marina Mouka
We are determined to end the era of “bad journalism” and make your decision and your opinion our core values by giving a fresh choice to journalists, content creators, students and new researchers.
Who we are:
“YourChoice” is our suggestion to any professional or passionate researcher to find again reliable sources. It’s a website that you can choose what you want to read, vote the story that you want to be covered in depth, participate in a debate with experts about it and, finally, read YOUR story.
Like any successful recipe, so is this one made from some secret materials. «Your Choice» startup is based on three fundamental principles:
Participation: The website we envisioned bases its function on the participatory process. Everyone who will subscribe or be a member of our site will be able to interact. Either through voting on a topic to be written, or through participating in discussions (debates) with experts and professional journalists for further deepening.
Full Story: Entering “YourChoice” website every content creator or new researchers will know that the story they are going to read will be 100% complete. The each time story will not base only on current news, but would be thoroughly analyzed from the outset. From the very beginning. By finishing the reading, every subscriber or member will be informed globally of the issue he/she is concerned with.
Reliable source: The fact that we rely solely on credible sources can make our website a source for other professional journalists. Every practitioner who wants to work on an issue will be able to use a complete story of “YourChoice” as a reliable and non-negotiable correct source.
Market size
The broader market in which “YourChoice” enters is the information industry. Where various websites work in a specific way. What they are concerned with is neither to produce a complete/full story nor to be a quality one. The main goal is to get the news out quickly and prevent the competitor.
Some might say that “YourChoice” is similar to other Greek startups such as “Inside Story” or “The Press Project”. Nevertheless, the answer is definitely “No”. “YourChoice” is even deeper because it puts every subscriber or member in focus and seeks interaction with them. In addition, there will be no ideological or political targeting in our stories.
Business Model
If we really want “YourChoice” to succeed, surely the features that already mentioned are very important. However, the website should be able to become financially capable. Our unique financial revenues will come exclusively from the subscribers and the members. We will only depend on our audience.
A lot of other news sites use to revenue from ads. In our case this will not happen because of two very clear reasons. First, we all know that advertisements are tedious. It’s a common occurrence for every one of us to try to read something on web, but we have simultaneously a lot of ads in front of us. We don’t want for our readers a problem like this. Secondly, we don’t prefer ads because we believe that this violates our ethics and morality
Two Packages:
Our readers will have the opportunity to read our stories and articles for free. If someone wants something more than this, he will be able to buy two kind of packages.
The simple one will give him the opportunity to vote between the three proposed articles, as a subscriber. The other package, which is more reinforced, will give him the potentiality to suggest articles, and to have an online conversation with the journalists of the site and a group of experts, as a member.
The team
Efi, Christos, Savvas and myself (Marina) share the same passion for journalism and creative writing. We seek the truth in everything we do and that is what we want to give to all of you. All these things and our common base in our studies is what brought us together, but our real strength lies in our differences. With Efi’s experience, Savva’s knowledge for politics as a political scientist, Christo’s determination and love for sports and my enthusiasm for research, we already have the key elements of success.
Our next step is to find the right experts for each story that will help us throughout the whole process of research, web developers to do their magic in our website and to build strong collaborations with Libraries, Universities, News Agencies and Research Centers, that will add more value to our trustworthiness.
“Don’t invest in our company, invest in your story”
Our vision is to reclaim the trust that is lost from journalism nowadays, to give everyone the opportunity to choose what they to read without being bombarded by useless informations and annoying ads and to make everyone part of the process called information.
This is also our mission now, and by believing in “YourChoice” we ask you not to invest in us, but in your voice and your story.
