On a recent site I was working on, one of the requirements was to pull the most recent news item from a number of different categories into a single module. So in effect they wanted something similar to the news portal component just released by Ijoomla. I researched the possibility of creating it myself and then I came up with a workaround that would save alot of time and be pretty easy to maintain.

It basically involves using a number of copies of the BK news module and inserting it into the base module using the {mosloadposition} tag. Here are the steps.