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.
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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.
Unlike many CMSs, which jettison production data at the end of publishing, in Superdesk, those bytes are saved and reused by the Analytics Module, helping newsroom managers answer key questions about their internal operations.
While every newsroom operates differently, at its core, the news-making process can be codified. For software developers, those standardised bits of data are the equivalent of digital gold
It used to be that when a publisher wanted to replace their news outlet’s content-management system, they faced some version of this question: to buy or build? But thanks to open-source software, that question has now become obsolete.
Consolidations and budget cuts have damaged the quality and quantity of news around the world. In Brazil, a group of journalists is working to solve this universal problem and is using Sourcefabric’s technology to do it.
