"I just started playing with this module for a client site I am working on.
The site is still being developed but this component has saved us a ton of time.

There are two things that are holding it back, image control and an RSS system to automatically populate the site. Two things my client is insisting on.

The Image control is being "fixed" this week according to the support forums and the RSS issue is being worked on and hopefully will be released this week (Week of April 8).

This component is head and tails above any competitor component. In fact, I am not sure anything even comes close.

I am recommending this to another client who is so far impressed with what he has seen.

Use the news portal comp with the new SideBar component and you have a state of the art news portal that rival those of MSNBC and CNN."