Managing News is a pluggable, open source news and data aggregator with visualization and workflow tools. It's built on Drupal and uses Features, which makes it highly customizable and extensible. The code is now in open beta and is available for download at www.managingnews.com/download.

Managing News is both a product and a platform. Out of the box it can help your communications team manage a brand reputation, allow geographically dispersed clusters of NGOs stay on the same page, or act as a simple thematic news planet to share feeds with the world. It can also serve as a platform to build highly custom data aggregators that suck in everything from CSV to RDF to custom XML formats and that need unique workflows and visualizations.

Managing News was designed and built by Development Seed, and funded in part by the Knight Foundation, which specifically helped fund some key module development to improve Drupal's mapping and aggregation tools.