Now we can export news only from single category. But in real life, it's convenient to have several ones. For example, at my site I have "vendor news", "upcoming events", "local news" and so on. Each type is placed at separate category, because different publishers have different rights.

So, why not to extend forum settings, to allos merging news export from several subforums to single stream?

I think this idea is great.

In my case, I have a news forum where I post about things affecting my site and forums and then multiple news forums which apply to the various projects I am working on.