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.
Whether you run a global media empire, publish a custom newsletter or are just embarking on digital publishing, Superdesk is for you. While Superdesk was designed with the specific needs of news agencies in mind, it is not only for large-scale newsrooms. If your newsletter turns into a multi-channel subscription news service, Superdesk will scale with your enterprise. No matter the publishing environment, your writers and editors will use the same intuitive, lightweight CMS tools and interfaces for creating, editing and distributing content ranging from text articles to multimedia packages.
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
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The newsroom management features of Superdesk deliver a competitive advantage
Own your workflows
Superdesk workflows are created and controlled by your editorial users, not imposed on them by the newsroom software.
Create once, publish everywhere
Manage the production process from creation to distribution across all channels in a single headless content management platform.
Newsroom automation
Save time and effort with flexible article templates that automate recurring tasks and routines in the digital newsroom.
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Flexible to suit organisations of any size
Sourcefabric spoke the same language when it came to newsroom needs. With the digital arm of news media continually creating new challenges, managing a platform that allows you to enhance, add and remove functionality without a fuss is essential.
Brook Thomas CTO, Australian Associated Press Read more
It wasn’t just Superdesk’s functionality that won us over, but also the benefits that come from being a part of a community of news agencies participating in an open source project. We can all share in ideas and new features that will help us become more competitive.
I really appreciate the support I get from my partners at Sourcefabric. The migration of our news site to Superdesk Publisher was done with careful scoping and continual attention to our needs and goals. Not only is the design functional, but it also delivers a beautiful experience to our readers.
Leonardo Attuch Editor-in-Chief, Brasil 247 Read more
We are delighted to embark on the Superdesk journey. This will finally bring all of our valuable content assets together, creating a richer experience for our clients and unlocking a new world of packaging potential.
Andrea Baillie Editor-in-Chief, The Canadian Press Read more
State of the art open-source headless CMS
Publish your future success story with a digital-native news management system
In Business
Superdesk integrates with legacy newsroom management systems to ease your upgrade path to current and emerging technologies.
In the Newsroom
Find, retrieve, manage, edit and publish every atom of content in all of your multimedia repositories from one open-source media management hub.
In Ones and Zeros
ReSTful APIs, MongoDB and Elasticsearch combine in a modular and extensible Python powerhouse for converged media.
The native publishing platform for Superdesk will soon offer an all-new, mobile-first experience for lightning-fast performance and enhanced content discoverability.
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated efforts by news organisations worldwide to produce more content with fewer resources. At the Canadian Press, editors are using algorithms and a planned migration to Superdesk to address this issue head on.
Providing the technological solution to LJI is a confirmation of Sourcefabric's mission – to create robust open-source software that strengthens journalism and empowers under-representedd voices.
Superdesk 2.0, the biggest update to our industry-leading open-source headless CMS in years, is on the horizon. See what’s coming to Superdesk in Q3 2020 and beyond.
The National Catholic Register, one of the United States’ oldest sources of Catholic news and opinion, joins the growing ranks of media organisations powered by our industry-leading open-source headless CMS.
