diff --git a/ccm-cms-types-newsitem/src/WEB-INF/traversal-adapters/com/arsdigita/cms/contenttypes/NewsItem.xml b/ccm-cms-types-newsitem/src/WEB-INF/traversal-adapters/com/arsdigita/cms/contenttypes/NewsItem.xml
index daf8d8b87..33b20e840 100755
--- a/ccm-cms-types-newsitem/src/WEB-INF/traversal-adapters/com/arsdigita/cms/contenttypes/NewsItem.xml
+++ b/ccm-cms-types-newsitem/src/WEB-INF/traversal-adapters/com/arsdigita/cms/contenttypes/NewsItem.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<xrd:adapters xmlns:xrd="http://xmlns.redhat.com/schemas/waf/xml-renderer-rules" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://rhea.redhat.com/schemas/waf/xml-renderer-rules xml-renderer-rules.xsd">
+<xrd:adapters xmlns:xrd="http://xmlns.redhat.com/schemas/waf/xml-renderer-rules"
+                         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+        xsi:schemaLocation="http://rhea.redhat.com/schemas/waf/xml-renderer-rules xml-renderer-rules.xsd">
 <!-- No need to list all the content types here. Only
        need to list a type if is adds associations that
        were not in the parent type, or to remove attributes
@@ -7,7 +9,9 @@
 
   <!-- First off the adapters for ContentItemPanel -->
   <xrd:context name="com.arsdigita.cms.dispatcher.SimpleXMLGenerator">
-    <xrd:adapter objectType="com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.NewsItem" extends="com.arsdigita.cms.Article" traversalClass="com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.ContentItemTraversalAdapter">
+    <xrd:adapter objectType="com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.NewsItem"
+                                extends="com.arsdigita.cms.basetypes.Article"
+                     traversalClass="com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.ContentItemTraversalAdapter">
       <xrd:formatter property="/object/newsDate" 
                         class="com.arsdigita.xml.formatters.DateFormatter"/>
     </xrd:adapter>