A News Portal is a specialized CMS that syndicates its headlines and stories into news feeds. The canonical news portal is Slashdot, with many copycat tools like those derived from phpNuke (PostNuke, eNvolution, Xaraya).

The News Portal categorizes stories into topics and allows Moderation? (karma) by users that decides on the ranking order of stories.

The standard news portal has three dimensions or categories into which stories are collected - Topics, Sections, and Authors. Each user can set up a profile that limits visible postings to only some of these sections, topics, or authors.

The Weblog or Blog is a personal subset of the typical news portal, generally with a single author and often no Topics or Sections.

We classify the News Portal, the Weblog, and the Wiki as what we call a Cms Lite?.