I would add Panels to that list, and most likely CCK too.
Most news sites would also like some kind of scheduled publishing, which means Scheduler comes in handy. If you want to copy the way they do URLs you should also get Pathauto.
Groups.drupal.org is a part of the drupal.org group of sites. Logging in on this site requires an account on the main drupal.org site. If you do not have an account on drupal.org, you will need to create one, log in over there, and then come back here where you should automatically be logged in.
I can't see anything there
I can't see anything there that can't be done with Views.
I would add...
I would add Panels to that list, and most likely CCK too.
Most news sites would also like some kind of scheduled publishing, which means Scheduler comes in handy. If you want to copy the way they do URLs you should also get Pathauto.
When I think about it, it's really time to rewrite the list of modules that might be useful for newspapers (which still mainly deals with –gasp– Drupal 5).
//Johan Falk, Sweden