Newsroom

News shows your published SharePoint news posts as dynamic cards, pulled live and read as the signed-in user, so everyone sees only the posts they already have access to. Choose from eight layouts (Editorial, Mosaic, Grid, List, Featured, Magazine, Carousel and Headlines) and source the news from this site or from a set of selected sites. In edit mode you can pin, reorder and flag stories as Breaking.

Permissions

No Microsoft Graph permission is needed for the news itself, which is read as the signed-in user. Only the optional audience targeting uses a single read-only Graph scope, GroupMember.Read.All, which your admin approves. If it is not granted, targeting fails open and the news still shows.

Set up

1. Install the package (see the Install guide). Approve the optional targeting scope only if you want audience targeting.
2. Edit a page → add the Glow Cloud Newsroom web part.
3. In the property pane, choose a layout, pick your source, and set the columns and card detail.

Sources

• This site - the news posts published on the current site.
• Selected sites - a set of sites you pick from a live tenant search, combined into one feed. They can span hubs and departments, so one page can gather news from wherever it is published.

Layout options

• Layout - Grid, List, Featured, Magazine, Carousel or Headlines, with column controls.
• Card detail - thumbnails, authors and relative dates.
• Header - give the part a title, upload a header logo, and style the title banner (see below).
• Targeting - target the web part to Microsoft 365 or security groups.
• Theme - inherits your site theme, light and dark.
• Performance - cards paint immediately and thumbnails load in after, so the part never blocks the page, with tidy loading and empty states.

Title banner

The banner behind the web part title is styled from the Header group of the property pane, below the title and logo settings, so the feed can carry a masthead in your own brand rather than the SharePoint default. Fields appear only when the style you pick uses them. Existing web parts are unchanged: the banner keeps the look it has now until an author chooses a style.

• Title banner style - Solid colour, Soft tint, Gradient fade, Two colours, No fill (ghost), Underline, Accent bar, Overline label or Background image. The filled styles give the news a masthead; the quieter ones let the stories lead.
• Banner shape - Rounded or Square. Not offered for the styles with no fill to shape (ghost, underline and overline label).
• Banner colour - set the banner to a colour of your own. Use the site theme colour puts it back on the theme.
• Second colour - the far end of the blend, shown when the style is Two colours.
• Banner background image - shown when the style is Background image, with a readability overlay so the title stays legible over a busy picture.
• Overline text - the small label above the title, shown when the style is Overline label. Useful for a standing masthead such as the department or edition the news belongs to.
• Title text colour - Automatic, Light or Dark. Automatic computes the contrast against the real banner colour (WCAG ratios), so a masthead in a brand colour stays legible. Offered for the styles where the title sits over a blend, an image or the page itself, so you can override the automatic choice when it is not the one you want.

Every reader sees only the news posts they already have access to, and audience targeting fails open if the optional Graph scope is not granted.