About CRAYON

CRAYON — CReAte Your Own Newspaper — launched in 1995 as the web's first personalized news service. Hundreds of thousands of readers built their own front pages here before "personalization" was a word the industry used.

Thirty years later, the problem has inverted. In 1995 the hard part was getting enough news; today it's trusting any of it. So the new CRAYON does one thing relentlessly: for every story, it shows you every side — how many independent outlets are reporting it, who reported it first, and how each one tells it. No editor, no algorithmic feed tuned to your outrage. The ranking is arithmetic, and the arithmetic is public.

Stories are ranked by independent-source count and recency. The full source list and methodology are open.

Est. 1995 · Rebuilt 2026 · Still crayon.net