Methods and systems for providing personalized information in a variety of formats is disclosed. Articles may be disseminated to users according to the users' preferences. Each article may contain a plurality of content segments, each content segment being contained within a corresponding content block that is labeled as being renderable using one or more rendering media, such as audio, video, image, or text. In this way, users may receive personalized information in a variety of ways; for example, a user can receive customized presentations about particular articles of interest via radio, cell phone, voicemail, television, MPEG player, web browser, or virtually any other type of media player.