External News (2nd draft)

If you have found an external publication featuring pertinent Yale related news, you should submit it as an “External News” article.

There are a lot of possible fields to fill out for an external article, which give users a wide variety of display options. However, there are only a few fields that are required. The purpose of these instructions is to guide you through creating a basic news article.

To start adding an internal article:

1. Visit https://profile.yale.edu

2. Log in with your NetID and password

3. Click News in the navigation.

4. Click the Submit a News Article button

This will take you to the article editing page for a new article.

Article Info

To start creating an External article, select External Article and the relevant “Article Info” fields will appear.

Fill in the following fields that appear:

• Title

• Thumbnail

  • Thumbnails are not required, but make the news articles and listings much more interesting. Please add a relevant thumbnail whenever possible.

  • For more advice on adding and cropping thumbnails for news, check these instructions.

• Author

  • To add a Yale person, click Add New, start typing a name, click the correct name in the suggestions list that appears, and click Add

  • To add a person who is not a Yale employee, click Add New, type in the author’s full name, then click Add.

• Source

  • To tag the source of the external article, you must include the Publication Name (In the official name of the original publication from which the article came)

  • You must also include the full URL you utilized to access the article at its original source.

• Byline date

  • In this section, enter the original date the article was published in the original source.

• Article Summary

  • If you don’t want to write a custom summary, the first few sentences of the article or the article subtitle may suffice.

Then, click Save and continue to move on to the next step.

People & Organizations

You’ll notice, after you have clicked Save and Continue that the wizard for the External Article jumps ahead a few steps to the “People and Organizations” tag.

This is because, as you are simply referencing an external piece of work owned by an organization that is not affiliated with Yale, you are not actually entering any copyrighted material into our system. Instead, you are prompted to tag the relevant Yale Faculty and Staff and/or organizations associated with this particular article.

Publish Settings

The final step for the External Article is to set the publish options.

• Now: the article will be published immediately and will appear on websites as soon as it’s approved.

• Schedule for : the article will be sent to administrators for approval immediately, but the article will not appear on websites until the date and time you select

Choose the Schedule for option and choose a date and time in the future (yellow highlight) if the article should not appear on websites until a later date.

Click Finish to submit your article