News format guidelines

Information on the layout and format of stories posted to libcom news

Titles
- Please only capitalise the first letter of any article titles (and any other already-capitalised words of course). E.g. US forces invade Iraq, not US Forces Invade Iraq.
- Please keep headlines short, to 40 characters or less, but still explaining adequately what the story is about.

Introduction
Please try to write an abstract as the introduction to your article, including the key information of Who, What, Where and When. This will appear on news listing pages like libcom.org/news or libcom.org/news/uk. Try to keep it to around 150 characters, or 1.5 to 2.5 lines of text in the entry field.

Tags
When entering tags for a story, please enter between 2 and 10 keyword tags. Enter them in lower case, unless they are proper nouns, and separate with commas. Important things to include are:
- The country the story is in – try to match the tags already in which will show up as you type. America is "USA" for example. UK stories don't need the country, unless Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.
- The city the story in, if it's a big city or US state
- If it's about a big company, the name of the company, e.g. Asda-Walmart
- If it's about a union or mentions a union a lot, the acronym of the union. E.g. Unison or TGWU
- If it's work related, add the name of the sub-industry the story's about, e.g. rail, local government, call centres, supermarkets or whatever
- If it's a strike add the tags strikes, if wildcat add wildcat strikes (as well as strikes), if general - general strikes as well
- If it's an interview, add interviews, if a review add reviews
- Any other good keywords you can think of, like: demonstrations, environment, climate change, police, etc.

Many thanks, and happy posting!

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