Superdesk Review

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Superdesk is a state-of-the-art digital newsroom system. It combines headless CMS functionality with powerful workflow features for an end-to-end news creation, production, curation and distribution platform. Built alongside journalists in the newsroom, it has a modular, API-centric design that enables news organisations to add and adapt the functionality most relevant to their business. Superdesk is open-source web-based newsroom software that integrates easily with legacy systems as well as third-party applications.

With Superdesk you can:

Integrate existing systems
Take advantage of flexible content templates
Get peace of mind with a proven solution that is running the operations of newsrooms around the world
Streamline newsroom production processes
Intuitively create new products and services
Curate text and multimedia assets
Search and package content easily with metadata
Create a content item once and distribute it to multiple platforms, automatically adjusting the delivery format
Manage access with fine-grained user roles

SpecsUpdate

TechnologyPython, Javascript

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Pros

Pro
Visual

The interface is clean and well designed. You can tell someone with a UX background worked on it and not just software engineers.

Pro
Easy to use

Putting together an article is straightforward: you type the text into the main fields and then use drag and drop to add photos.

Pro
Publish to more than one website

You have the option of setting up publishing routes to choose where something gets published in case you have multiple websites.

Pro
Customizable

I like that you can set up a personal workspace and also add different widgets to your dashboard depending on what you’re interested in.

Pro
Newsroom automation

Superdesk can aggregate and automate multiple mundane newsroom jobs.

Cons

Con
Sometimes buggy

Sometimes, when trying to publish a post I was getting errors which was a bit annoying. However, after we updated to the latest version the instance was running smoothly.