NCCNewsOnline – How To Post

  • Go to nccnewsonline.net and log in
  • On the left-hand sideclick Posts – Add New
  • Enter headline where it says “Enter title here”
  • Headline must have a subject and a verb. No secondary head needed.
  • Byline and Dateline in bold:By Tim Frank FULTON, N.Y. (NCC News) — start article right away, no return
  • Choose a category from the right-hand column
  • Enter several tags from the right-hand column
  • Choose your course from the right-hand column (this is how your professor finds your story)
  • Set Featured Image from the right-hand column
  • Upload Files
  • Select image to upload
  • Write caption as a sentence of news, adding to what the photo shows.
  • End with: (c) 2015 Juanita Perez
  • Set featured image
  • Click Yes box within Feature Image section under “Use featured image toggle”
  • Save Draft
  • Preview
  • Publish when your professor says it’s OK

How to post audio

Your audio file will not be featured at the top of the story, so you need to include a featured image.

  • Go to SoundCloud and click on your story
  • Click Share
  • At the top choose Embed
  • Choose the smaller icon to the right
  • Click WordPress code and thencopy the information inside the Code & preview box
  • Go back to yourNCC News story
  • Scroll down to SoundCloudEmbed Code
  • Paste your link in the box
  • SoundCloud Audio Title: write title of your story
  • Audio Caption: enter complete sentence of news describing what’s in the audio story
  • Save Draft

How to post a Featured Video:

Your video will be featured at the top of the story. But, leave the featured image you created in the first step because that’s what will appear next to your story on the home page.

  • Scroll down to Featured Video
  • Featured Video YouTube ID:find your video on YouTube and enter the text that follows the = in the URL. For example:
  • YouTube URL:
  • You only paste: CmBD45O5IUU
  • Video Caption: enter a complete sentence of news describing what’s in the video. End the sentence with (c) 2015 your name
  • Featured Video Credit: leave blank

How to include photos in the body of the story:

  • Scroll down to Subsection Photos under Post Relationship
  • Add new Subsection Photo
  • Select image
  • Once in Media Gallery, choose the image you want to include
  • Title: can leave blank
  • Caption: can leave blank
  • Alt Text: leave blank
  • Description: leave blank
  • Select
  • Subsection Photo Caption – Write caption as a sentence of news, adding to what the photo showsand end caption with (c) 2015 your name or photo source
  • Subsection Photo Paragraph Placement – choose in which paragraph you want the photo to appear
  • Subsection Photo Alignment – choose left or right
  • Save

How to post a video within the text of the story:

Use this option for an extra interview you weren’t able to include in the main video story

  • Find your video on YouTube and copy the text that follows the = in the URL
  • Scroll down to Subsection Videos
  • Add New Subsection Video
  • Subsection YouTube ID: paste YouTube text that follows the =
  • Subsection Video Caption: enter a complete sentence of news describing what’s in the video and end caption with (c) 2015 your name
  • Save

How to post a photo gallery (slideshow):doesn’t work

Your gallery will be featured at the top of the story; no need to create a featured image.If you have already set a Featured Image, go back and Remove featured image.

  • Scroll down to Photo Gallery Images under Post Relationship
  • Click Add New Photo Gallery Image
  • Click Select image
  • Choose the image you want to upload
  • Title: can leave blank
  • Caption: can leave blank
  • Alt Text: can leave blank
  • Description: can leave blank
  • Select
  • Photo Gallery Image Caption: Write caption as a sentence of news, adding to what the photo showsand end caption with (c) 2015 your name or photo source
  • Photo Gallery Image Order Number: fill in?
  • Image Orientation: landscape preferred, portrait OK – is this still accurate?
  • Save
  • Add New Photo Gallery Image
  • Follow previous instructions
  • Save All Photo Gallery Images
  • **Note: the order of the slide show will be the reverse order you upload the photos. Last photo uploaded appears first in the slideshow. The last photo uploaded is the Cover Image for the slideshow – is this still correct?

Use the tool bar above the text box to format text

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Blockquote: Highlight/indent aquote.
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The last icon on the first row - the kitchen sink - gives you this second row:

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Checklist: Avoid the 10 Most Common Mistakes

  • Spelling is correct.
  • Review what’s underlined in red
  • Headlines have a subject and a verb.
  • The headline is no more than two lines.
  • Words in the second line extend at least halfway across.
  • Each word in the title headline is capitalized.
  • Subheads are not required, but can be used for a long story.
  • The byline/dateline is formatted and capitalized correctly.
  • By FirstnameLastname CITY, N.Y. (NCC News) - The story starts here…
  • Examples:
  • By Mannie Holmes CAZENOVIA, N.Y. (NCC News) - The Town of Cazenovia is …
  • By Nigel Duara TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) - A teen armed with a rifle ….
  • Note the capitalization: Only the city is all caps. State abbreviations are AP abbreviations, not postal abbreviations.
  • Verbs are past tense for quotes. Shoot for present or future tense in the lead (what’s next?).
  • Quotes are punctuated correctly, with attribution after the first sentence.
  • Examples:
  • “It’s great that the state has done this,” Strobel-Gower said. “People with disabilities don’t use the word handicapped, and haven’t for a long time.”
  • “I feel sorry for the taxpayers, but this is a much bigger problem than just the Town of DeWitt,” said Jim Clune, one of the protestors. (Put “said” first if a phrase comes after the name.)
  • Photos are horizontal, not vertical.
  • Photo captions are a sentence of news with a subject and a verb. They add news or information to what the picture itself communicates.
  • The photo copyright notice follows this format: (c) 2015 Newie Newhouse
  • The story is tagged by topic and by class.
  • You’ve looked at the published story online. Video and audio appear at the top and play correctly.