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What do you like best about Superdesk?

The best thing about Superdesk is it's an open source software and it is operated in a way that adaptes to the current scenario where the Work from home era which is more or like a remote News Management system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

The pricing which they offer for the small and medium sized news rooms are comparatively high in the market but still Superdesk offers an in-demand services in a remote basis. Thus, the pricing is too high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Superdesk solving and how is that benefiting you?

In the era of digital world, instant news publishing and management is really difficult for the young journalists to achieve but Superdesk provides and support these people with the wonderful software which looks very promising. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Superdesk?

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.

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Superdesk is an end-to-end content creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform made for news organisations. It scales to any size.

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Sourcefabric
Year Founded
2010
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Prague, CZ
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Recent Superdesk Reviews

Vignesh R.
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Vignesh R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Superdesk is the go-to tool for all the aspiring Journalists!"
The best thing about Superdesk is it's an open source software and it is operated in a way that adaptes to the current scenario where the Work from...
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Hemanth G.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"easy to use web based software"
This software connects the third party with the legacy is just incredible.
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Randall M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"real time reporting"
assists with determining which topics are most timely
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Superdesk Media

Superdesk Demo - Content Profiles
In Superdesk, you can create profiles that define elements of content and metadata to suit new products or customers.
Superdesk Demo - Custom Searches
With powerful Elasticsearch functionality built in, Superdesk allows editorial users to create complex search queries across multiple repositories and ingest sources and display real-time results either in a dashboard widget or the monitoring view.
Superdesk Demo - User Interface
The Superdesk user interface and working spaces have been designed for ease of use by journalists while providing a consistent overview of workflow and production for newsroom managers.
Superdesk Demo - Newsroom Automation
Superdesk comes with a variety of tools to accelerate and automate news production. At any time during article creation or editing, a journalist may choose to make a template of that job. One example would be market open/close reports from each major global index every weekday.
Superdesk Demo - Customisation Options
As an editorial user, you can create desks on the fly for breaking news stories or special events, such as the Olympics, the World Cup or a national election. You can also set up a widget to monitor football scores, or follow the progress of a space probe.
Superdesk Demo - Text Annotations
Looking for a way to add more information to a story without sending readers away from your website? Whether it’s fact boxes, footnotes or jargon busters, Superdesk allows you to add more detail to articles in a variety of ways.
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What do you like best about Superdesk?

SuperDesk is a digital newsroom system that manages content creations, production, and distribution. It is a open source headless CMS which provides you the best option to manage your content and publish it properly to all channels and platforms. It resolves both economic and technical challenges. It is the number one choice for everybody who wants to create content once and publishes everywhere. It is easy to use and offers a demo that allows you to see how the platform works. It also supports multiple UI languages and also provides you to include text annotations for reference. It provides a great deal of customization tools, which you can use to enhance your content publishing process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

I wish new features were regularly released. They should also provide proper documentation about the system administration, and the price also depends on the size of an organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Superdesk:

Superdesk is a digital newsroom system that provides flexibility and robustness to adapt to today's rapidly growing newsroom. It provides easy tools to manage content creations and customization. Editing an image or text is very easy. Support system of Superdesk is very good. I simple word one can say that Superdesk is a simple but yet a powerful software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Superdesk solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Superdesk, Custom Search becomes easy. One can easily search and get their result instantly from different sources. With Superdesk, you can save a lot of time by automating several aspects of the newsroom. Creating your templates with Superdesk is also very easy. Once your content is created, you can customize it anytime you want and can publish them everywhere. One can easily edit the images and text. For a journalist, creating their own newsletter is very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Superdesk?

This software is digital software which helps to easily spread news. It also helpful in the creation, production, curation, distribution, and publishing platform to process all people's requisition.You have the option of setting up publishing routes to choose where something gets published in case you have multiple websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

Sometime it shows the highly rumors news which create bad impact in the community.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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Superdesk:

Good starter for a new evolution on our editorial staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Superdesk solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has powerful workflow features. We can create end to end communication with legacy systems as well as third-party applications.Focus on content: allows for quick and efficient content production in a rapidly changing environment (such as breaking news, financial markets). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Superdesk?

This software connects the third party with the legacy is just incredible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

The dashborad could be designed better than actuals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Superdesk solving and how is that benefiting you?

During covid situation work from home is majorly influenced all of us & with the help os superdesk's secure authentication options we can acheive it so easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Superdesk?

The working interface, the overall website structure is pretty unique and easy to work with. The working instruction for any new blogger is constructive and makes things easy. Anyone can get along quickly with the blogging after watching how things work at the Super desk. The news is not only created here but also published worldwide channels with one click. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

It is hard to find the discrepancy in such a versatile software, but there are few things one must always accept shortcomings to fulfill the user needs. tHE OPEN SOURCE CONTENT CREATION SOFTWARE IS CONTINUOUSLY AMENDING, WHICH CREATES AN HEADACHE TO THE USER WHICH ARE NEW TO THIS CHANGING ATMOSPHERE. BUT THE GOODS ARE TOO MUCH RELATED TO THE ODDS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Superdesk:

KEEP DOING THE GOOD WORK; IT IS HELPING THE NEWS CONTENT CREATORS A LOT AND MAY HELP THE FUTURE GENERATION TO EXPLORE NEW GOALS AND CARRIER HEIGHTS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Superdesk solving and how is that benefiting you?

CONTENT CREATION HAS GONE TO ANOTHER HIGH, WHICH MAKES SUPER DESK BE LIKED BY ONE AND ALL. LOCAL NEWS CAN EASILY BE CREATED JUST BY LOGGING IN TO THE SUPPER DESK AND USING ALL THE ARTILLERY THAT IS PROVIDED IN THE EDITOR MENU. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Superdesk?

I find the user interface very easy to work with. It's also very useful for content creation, blogging and it's also a great way to manage your content.. It's a great tool to remain relevant! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

I've noticed that sometimes it may not work on the first try. There are also a lot of rules and configurations and it doesn't support the latest socials. Think it will be helpful to have software improvements and modifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Superdesk solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's an easy way to publish my content on multiply platforms with one button-- good way to create content and to serve more niche markets. And think it's useful for multiple disciplines ie blogging and even news platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Superdesk?

assists with determining which topics are most timely Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

only as good as the news sources you subscribe to Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Superdesk solving and how is that benefiting you?

for reporting on cutting edge technologies, things can change very quickly, so you need up to date info on what has already been reported Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Superdesk?

It's the most useful software in our business for content creation and blogging. We remain relevant to the specific niche audience we serve by providing latest news relevant for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

My only wish is that they keep releasing updates and software improvements and modifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Superdesk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Content creating and list building our niche market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Superdesk?

The best part of it is that it's a open source where you can manage your content and distribute it also. And it also have multiple UI languages. Also the user interface is very much user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

Updates are irregular. Documentation needs to be a little bit proper I guess. Otherwise i like all other things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Superdesk solving and how is that benefiting you?

I basically search different type of things with it. And it saves a lot of time. I also create template for my content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Superdesk?

Intresting way to distribute my content to any platform, with alot of rules and configurations. even with platforms that dont "talk" with each other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

Not supporting the latest Socials. sometimes things not working on first try Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Superdesk solving and how is that benefiting you?

a simple way to publish my media on multiply platforms with one button Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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