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Click-by-click: News Story

Create a card in Nexus.

Your card may have a Digital Story Presentation tab. If not, use the Create button the make one.

NPR ID: This is the ID of the linked story in Grove. Use it to find stories, talk about stories, etc. It is the equivalent of the Seamus ID.

Headline: The title of the card will be the headline until you change it in Nexus or in Grove.

Teaser: This is your teaser. You can change it later, in Grove.

Section: Set this to your section.

Branding: Leave this as NPR.

Published Date: When the Grove story publishes, this date will magically appear.

Users: Add your reporter and editor for the Digital Story Presentation. NOTE: These are NOT BYLINES. You must add bylines in Grove.

Sources: Put your sources here.

Flags: Don't worry about flags.

Once you're done with all this, click View in Grove, which is directly under the Create Presentation button:

This takes you STRAIGHT to the proper page in Grove. Stay there. Don't move! You'll see this at the top:

Immediately save by clicking the disk icon.

Adding your story

Note that the NPR ID is on the right:

The character limit for the Headline is 85.

SEO Title will default to the headline — don't let it! Write an actual SEO headline. That is the headline for search/Google. 50-60 characters, don't go over 65.

In Permalink Text, type your custom URL, which is keywords-separated-by-hyphens:

In Teaser, enter your teaser: 200 characters. Keep an eye on that character counter!

Under Bylines, click the circle-with-plus in it.

Start typing slowly in the empty field to bring up your name:

If you WANT to add photos, instructions are here.

Body text

Go to Body and add your text however you choose. You can paste from Google Docs, Word, Pages, etc.

Let's add a regular old hyperlink.

  1. Select the text you want to link. Press Ctrl-K or Command-K, or click the link icon in the body toolbar.
  2. If you're linking to something within Grove, choose Internal. If you're linking to something outside of Grove/NPR, leave it set to External.
  3. If it's internal, you'll see a search pane pop out. Find your story and click on it.
  4. If it's external, scroll a bit and put the URL where it says URL.
  5. Click SAVE & CLOSE.

Known issue!

  • Hyperlinks at the beginning of a paragraph make the rest of the paragraph disappear — sometimes.
  • Two hyperlinks in a row will squish together.

Internal link

To make a Seamus-style internal link, use Promo Link under the embed menu (mountain-range icon). This will bring up a search that works like all other searches in Grove. You'll can use NPR IDs (the replacement for Seamus ID) to go directly to what you want. Or use the URL (in quotes), which works sometimes.

It will default to the classic right-margin link.

For other looks, go to the Styles tab for the promo and scroll to NPR Promo Styles:

Choose LEGACY Headline with audio for the one with a little audio player.

Save and leave

Click the disk icon to save. Send the NPR ID to your editor. Click the NPR logo at the top to depart.

Updating later

Your editor can send you a link that goes directly to the revision. If not, ask them for it!

Leaving or closing the story

You can close a story in a variety of ways, but two sure bets are clicking the hamburger icon, then Dashboard, or clicking the NPR logo (to the right of the hamburger icon:

Save first! Don't take a risk blah blah blah disk.