- How to add a news article – Step-by-step instructions
- News article creation FAQs
Information about each field in the news article creation screens
* mandatory information
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| *Title | The headline of the news article(character limit of 80)
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| *Teaser | Very brief description of the news article – 2-3 enticing words to draw readers in (character limit set at 25, though preference is shorter than 16 characters)
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| *Summary | Short synopsis of the news article (character limit of 150)
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| Image | Select your own image or ignore and a generic image will be used. The image will appear in the article itself, in your main feed of articles and in other listings of news stories across the College website
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| Image alt text | Provide a description of the image. Read by screen readers and only visible when the image is hovered over.
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| Image caption | You can provide a visible description to accompany the image.
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| Authors | Author of the article. Defaults to user who has logged in to publish the story. Can be edited to change the author.
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| Author search | Uses the College Directory to add author details
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| Next | Saves all details and opens the next tab
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| *Categorisation | |
| *Category | The category will reflect the overarching structure of the News site, broadly mapping content to Faculties or the corporate category, ‘College and Campus’. Multiple categories can be selected for cross Faculty stories. This field defaults to the Faculty associated with the user. You should ensure the primary Faculty is at the top of the list of categories as this will affect where the article is displayed on the main College news site.
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| Sub category | The sub category maps stories to departments (options for category to be determined based on selection of category, e.g. Aeronautics can only be selected as a sub category if Engineering is a category). You can select more than one sub category.
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| Story type | The story type organises stories into:
A story cannot be both news and a feature. The default story type is news.
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| Sub story types | Sub story types offer more detail about the format or style of content, e.g. Profile, Award, Video (options for sub story types to be determined based on selection for story type)
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| Tags | Tags offer insight into the overarching content of the story and provide opportunities to group stories by theme. There is no limit to the number of tags that can be used, but a maximum of four is recommended.
Tags that may be used regularly are:
The new functionality will offer any news editor the opportunity to request that a new tag is added to the list – approval will be required from the Communications and Development Division. Tags should not be:
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| Tag search | Look for a tag by typing the name of the tag you want into the search box. Alternatively, you can see all tags and select appropriate tags from the complete listing.
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| Next | Saves all details and opens the next tab
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| Content | |
| Click to add content | Add the main text to your news article. You add your text via the College Content Management System editor.
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| Publish | Publishes your news story – you have reached the end of the compulsory steps and can publish your story now
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| Links | |
| Related College stories | Link another College news story to your article – simply paste in the complete URL of a College news story. Related stories will appear within your article to allow readers to pursue similar content.
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| Related links | Link to another webpage that is relevant to the information in your news article. These will appear within your article.
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| Featured academics | Link a member of College staff to your news article. By adding names of academics here, you will enable the article to be associated with their Professional Web Page (PWP). Completing this section will have no visible impact on your actual news article.
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| Related multimedia | Link published video and audio to your news article – simply paste in the complete URL of content in iMedia. Related multimedia will appear within your article to allow readers to pursue similar content.
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| Media mentions | Link your news article to external web pages. Add the publication date of the media mention and give the link a title.
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| Next | Saves all details and opens the next tab
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| Publish | Publishes your news story at this point.
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| Additional Information | |
| Publish | Defaults to the date the article is created. You can select to publish the news article automatically at a pre-defined date and time.
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| Expires | To remove the news article from your news feed you can set an expiry date (most likely to be used if you are using the News system for announcements that will go out of date).
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| Comments | Select if you would like readers to be able to leave comments on your news article. The default is that comments are not permitted.
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| Moderators | Confirm who will monitor, approve or reject comments. This will default to the individual publishing the article, but it can be amended to direct comments to a colleague. Multiple moderators can be selected.
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| Funders and supporters | Add details of funders of the research featured in the story. The Communications and Development Division are currently collecting data for this section so content may not yet be available here. If you would like to add a funder or supporter, please contact Peter Gillings (p.gillings@imperial.ac.uk).
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| Next | Saves all details and opens the next tab
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| Publish | Publishes your news story
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