I'd rather we call it something that isn't a trademarked name (AP or Associated Press) of another entity.
Call it "Bitshares Media".
Most sites you can't hash the content, because there is some dynamic factor to it. You'd have to make heuristics to find the actual content, or perhaps the author could specify how to extract it. Neither one would work very well.
You also have to attribute ownership if you're going to start paying people for content and not just for their submission. I don't think that is easy to do.
However having a voting for submissions DAC could be quite useful. I wonder what the marketcap would ever reach.. Probably not that high, but perhaps.
Devcoin actually has Devtome so it might be possible to create a decentralized Devtome.
There does seem to be a LOT of interest in this sort of DAC. My concern would be people spamming the DAC with bs images an so forth. Sure we could vote them out of visibility but they still take up space on the blockchain. I suppose you could prune data using some criteria so that the more important/interesting news could be kept for historic reasons. Although again - this gives people a tool to censor. It always comes down to giving benevolent entities enough power to do their job but not let the trolls/censoring types to ruin it.
What we have is a web browser inside the toolkit. With that you allow people to put up their submissions. Perhaps some nice framework could be found that would allow people to theme their DAC's news presentation, but ideally you're going to want most people to find the site via a regular website that is pulling the data off the blockchain. Then if people want to become nodes etc they can download the whole thing.
If you keep submitted image size down and discount possible spam issues a blockchain would work for most news. Images would have to be kept to a small size though, but thats not that hard.
You can charge people to submit or let a group of people vote on submissions. I don't know which approach is better. Maybe a combination of both, to prevent people from wasting time by spamming but then also preventing someone from buying spots.......
The cool thing about it is you could have like a website that would be a technological first. Decentralized/distributed news. "Uncensorable". I think this fact along if marketed right could gather a lot of exposure. Bitcoin technology bringing you the news ! Actually it might have more application in other countries than the US.
We can use web of trust and other mechanisms. We might be able to build blogging into the Bitshares X client so more people take part in it? We could feed the news directly into Bitshares X too. Bitshares Media could pay people per blog post like how Devtome does.
Devtome does it where the more people who start blogging the less it pays to blog so this would allow the people who start doing it early to make decent money. I think if Bitshares Media is set up it should reward people who blog frequently and who start the habit early.
Beyond that the readers should be able to vote up or down articles. These votes from the shareholders and readers should determine how much the article writer gets paid. Some articles should charge a micropayment fee to readers, some a recurring subscription, some should make money from ads.
That is how I would do it anyway. I don't know if it could be done from Bytemaster's original design because I don't fully grasp how it works but I do think that with a DAC you have everything you need. You have shareholders who can vote. You have delegates who can become the journalists. You have the outside viewers who can vote. Journalist/delegates could edit each others work or work in teams.
Micropayments could be paid in BitUSD to get BitUSD circulating or in the Bitshares Media DAC internal assets. This way you could set it up so that people who blog often and have high ratings are the first to see the latest blog posts where they can then critique, edit, etc. It also rewards people who provide information with an information advantage.