I am not understanding the fuss about all of this.
People, if you know Sharepoint you can build this functionality now whatever version you have, you don't need to wait for this new (old/exisiting functionality)
Go learn about (or do if you know how):
- Create a site collection
- Create a sub site for your "news" and your required team sites for events, documents etc
- Create Content Types/Page layouts (create one or many for a "news" site articles)
- Meta Data for tagging news articles for grouping etc
- On your site collection home page
- Create a page layout to replicate the above layout
- Create Search Queries (or custom webparts using rest api but search will do this job)
- Create display templates to make the search queries look good
- Create some html/css to make it look good!
Simple!
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