Sorry, I forgot to include a link to my first article from yesterday...
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@wizardave/introducing-majornews-com-experiment-1-alien-descendant-defeats-the-dems-in-ohio-participation-requested

I'm open to any ideas, but probably all news.
World, national, state, politics, sports, entertainment, ...

Yes, very good points. Spam is a very big concern. I think this could be controlled through the use of downvoting, but I'm not sure yet. I'm thinking of having a vote separate from the Steemit vote similar to what SteemHunt has done. It would be easy enough to have a free flag vote, that would unsee the "news" until someone manually checked it. And yes, that creates the problem of unnecessary flagging competition. So some sort of blacklist would need to be maintained, also.

On the positive, the "mainstream" media has been taken over by about 4 or 5 major corporations depending on which reports you believe. Our goal is to have a decentralized news media. It will be crowdsourced news and the crowd will decide what is MajorNews vs. the controlled MSM pushing their talking points and agenda on us. It's my hopes the crowd base would become large enough to help control the spam of any kinds.

I would like to keep the site open to everyone, meaning they wouldn't have to be a member of Steemit to use it, but they also would not share in any Steemit rewards.

We're in the very early stage of trying to figure out what would be the best setup, thus the experiments.

Thanks for your input @curatorcat!