Common News Requirements

It seems that most CMS-managed sites end up with a "news" or "press release"
facility. I know the way I like News to work both in the CMS and on the live
sites, but I'm wondering what other people have done for News that I haven't
considered. I'm not really interested in the technical implementation, just
the ideas that were considered, rejected and/or implemented, what worked and
what didn't work, what you would do differently next time, etc. At the very
least I need to support syndication (deployment by email newsletter and to
multiple servers such as Intranet and multiple Internets), sorting, filtering
(by date) and aggregation, but what else should I be thinking about, even if
the requirement is not currently defined?

Thanks,

-John