Day-to-Day Training and Workflow

• Come into the Newsroom after story meeting (around 7:00)

• You are welcome to stay in the Newsroom and work or just attend the SE meeting
• Caption doc will be finished during this time.

• Decide which articles will be posted to the Facebook and which will be posted to Twitter
• Find the meta description from the website to use for the captions
• Example:

• If the Meta descriptions aren’t in, you might have to draft the captions yourself

• For tips on how to draft captions yourself, reference this presentation

• You also might have to edit the Meta description caption to adapt it to social media.
• Captions should be completed by 11PM

• Articles that come in after 11PM will be handled by the Managing Editors

• You can schedule them in Facebook Creator Studio and Hootsuite (for Twitter) (see instructions below)

• Don’t include the link unless the story is published (otherwise the link will change)

How to Schedule to Facebook

• Start by finding Facebook Creator Studio

• Stay in the “home” tab
• Always use “post something”

• Copy and paste in link

• This will automatically include a link in the post

• Scroll to the bottom of the post and click on “Share Now”
• Selected the “Schedule” option

• Finally, click “Schedule Post”

• To double check that it was scheduled correctly, go to the “Content Library” tab on Creator Studio

• In “Content Library” you can preview the post by hovering over it and clicking on the three dots

How to Post to Twitter and Hootsuite