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.
Never copy news articles you or another Yale faculty or staff member has written for display on the websites and submit them as External News
If you’d like to link to articles like this on your website, you can submit them as Internal News articles.
To start adding an internal article:
Visit https://profile.yale.edu
Log in with your NetID and password
Click
News
in the navigation.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 clickAdd
To add a person who is not a Yale employee, click
Add New
, type in the author’s full name, then clickAdd
.
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.
The byline date will appear as the publish date for your article.
If you select a byline date in the future, your article will be embargoed until that date. In other words, your article will not appear on websites until the byline date and time has passed, even if the article is approved before then.
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.
For detailed instructions on tagging people and organizations in a news article, please visit these Tagging Instructions
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 |
Click Finish
to submit your article