Dissemination of information updates across devices

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations to:
• receive news elements over a network interface and store the news elements in a news element database;
• determine a relevance score of the news elements for a plurality of user elements form a user portfolio that corresponds to a user;
• select news elements from the news elements database based on the relevance score;
• determine active devices currently in use by the user and active channels currently in use by the user;
• select an active device of the active devices based on display criteria of the device;
• select an active channel of the active channels based on an indicator in a user profile indicating that the user prefers the active channel and a determination that the active channel was a last channel used by the user;
• reformat the selected news elements into story components based on the active device and active channel;
• and
• transmit the story components to the active device and the active channel over the network interface.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations of:

• receiving a user-provided indication of a user device and channel to receive information on;
• receiving a plurality of news elements at a network interface of a processing system;
• storing the news elements in a news element database that resides in a memory of the processing system;
• determining a relevance score of the news elements in the news element database for a plurality of user elements stored in a user portfolio in the memory of the processing system;
• selecting selected news elements from the news elements database based on the relevance score;
• determining active devices currently in use by the user and active channels currently in use by the user;
• selecting an active device of the active devices based on display criteria of the device;
• selecting an active channel of the active channels based on an indicator in a user profile indicating that the user prefers the active channel and a determination that the active channel was a last channel used by the user;
• reformatting the selected news elements into story components based on the active device and the active channel;
• and
• transmitting the story components to the active device and via the active channel of the user over the network interface.