This can be an amazing project. I was curiously just thinking that it would be a great idea to create a media platform out of the steemit concept, I looked into the news tab and here it is your project.

A really good Editor and probably some other members to the team later on will be needed. It might be a good idea to use quality content from other blogs and media outlets as well.

Either way there is a long way to go and I wish you the best of luck!