1. A method for displaying a customized news stream, the method comprising: identifying dwell times spent by users while accessing a first plurality of items, each item belonging to one media type from a plurality of media types; determining statistical parameters for each media type based on the identified dwell times; detecting a news corpus having a second plurality of items; determining a priority for each item in the news corpus based on a media type of the item, the corresponding statistical parameters for the media type of the item, and a profile of a user; and sending a news stream to the user for presentation on a display, the news stream being sorted based on the priority of the items in the news corpus, wherein operations of the method are executed by a processor.