Hi, I’m Praneeth Kumar.
In this blog, you will learn exactly how to write a news blog step by step.
It is the only blog you need to learn on how do you write a news blog post step by stepwise if you ever start a news blog.
So without further ado let’s get started.
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How do you write a news blog post?
There are 7 important steps you have to take in order to write a news blog post as soon as possible.
Let’s take a look at the step-by-step tutorial on how to write a news blog post.
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Come up with a good Headline.
Believe it or not, the most important part of a news blog is to have a compelling headline.
Even if you come up with the amazing news that you want to cover on your blog but if you craft a bad headline for that news blog it’s not going to be read by a lot of people.
Your headline will be the first impression of the blog post or the news that you want to cover in your blog for the user.
To make sure that your headlines are good you can check it in tools like Emv headline analyser.
Please avoid making your headlines clickbait and don’t try to make a false statement or be controversial in your news headlines.
This can lead to a bad User experience with your news blog which can hurt your traffic acquisition from search engines and degrade your value.
In order to come up with beautiful headlines you can follow the best practices mentioned below like,
- You can craft your headlines like questions.
- You can craft your headlines like bold statements.
- You can include specific numbers in your headlines.
- You can use emotional words to evoke curiosity and empathy in your headlines.
- You can make your headlines informative.
These are all the popular ways to make your headlights attractive and compelling to click.
I would highly suggest you spend as much time as possible in coming up with beautiful headlines because it is going to decide how successful the blog is going to be after it gets published.
You can check other news blogs like BuzzFeed to get some ideas and inspiration on how to craft attractive headlines for your blog because these companies hire highly professional copywriters to get them to write compelling headlines.
2. Make a Summary of your news immediately.
As soon as you complete the process for your headlines before you get into the details of the news in your blog it’s time to create a short summary of your news immediately upfront in your blog.
The reason why you need to create a quick summary of the news is that,
many people who want to read the news blog are going to be employees and students who will have work to do, they would be expecting to get to know about the news quickly.
By creating a short and quick summary of your news upfront in your blog before getting into the details, you make it easy for all those people who don’t have all the time to read and stay updated with all the news.
Overall it’s a good User experience.
3. Show the Facts and story upfront after a quick summary.
Now it’s time to cover the main news topic in detail in your blog post.
Before you give any opinions, thoughts, and perspectives about the news,
you first of all need to give the facts and tell the exact news to the audience after as soon as you complete the summary of your news because
all the people who read your news apart from the summary section would like to read the news before they want to learn about what do you think like a journalist about the topic.
You should make sure to give all the facts and stories related to the news on top of the blog instead of letting them search for the news in your blog post,
you should deliver what the user came for on your blog which is to learn about the news as the first thing not to let them read your opinion about the news, this is a major mistake which many new news bloggers make very often.
People would read your opinion and your perspective if they want to, after reading and getting the information within your blog.
4. Short concise jargon-free content.
While you are covering the news in your blog and telling your opinion, it is highly recommended that you should make sure your content is written in simple words.
Don’t use technical words or jargon in your news.
Whenever you write and publish any news article on your blog post you should know that majority of people who like to read news articles on the internet are going to be students and,
normal employees who don’t have enough time to read newspapers and watch TV channels but want them to keep up to date with the latest information and current affairs.
Such type of people just want to get the information in simple words.
Don’t make your news article 1000-1500 words post where you cover all the related news about the topic in a single article.
Most people just like to read and get the information about the news as soon as possible, not wanting to read all the RELATED news in a single post. don’t try to make your post longer for SEO purposes.
Don’t add additional information, fluff, and filler that is not related to the main news in your blog topic, be clear and concise.
You don’t need to do a lot of SEO or backlinks to be able to rank in google or get traffic from google news. these news blogs have a short life span, they won’t stay relevant for a long time like any news.
5. Improve Readability.
Now it’s time to make your blog post easily readable.
You can use the following strategies to make your post easily readable.
- Use short paragraphs.
- Use bold and italics to highlight important sentences of your news.
- Use active voice words in your post.
- Use a conversational tone in your content.
- Use bucket brigades to make your post engaging.
- Use bullet points and lists in regular intervals of your content.
- Use quotes.
All of these strategies will help you make your content easy to read and skim.
You can also use tools like Hemingway editor to check the readability score of your content and try to achieve the score of 6-7th grade.
6. Include Multimedia.
After you made your content easily available it’s time to add the multimedia into your content like,
- Images.
- Video clips.
- Screenshots.
- Social media accounts screenshots.
- Audio files.
Depending upon the type of news you are covering, you should add relevant multimedia to your content.
Before you directly add the multimedia to your blog,
I highly recommend you compress the size of that multi-media like images and screenshots as it can help you reduce the loading speed of your webpage.
If you have started a news blog on WordPress, I highly recommend you install a plugin called smush which will compress your images automatically when you upload them.
Adding multimedia will make your content more attractive and appealing to read rather than having just blocks of text in your blog post.
7. Proofread and publish.
Now, 90% of your work is finished, but it’s time to do some proofreading and fact-checking of your blog.
You should check the following things:
- Make sure you have cited all the facts with proper sources.
- Make sure that you solve and remove all the punctuation and spelling errors in your content by running it through tools like Grammarly.
- Make sure all of your images are compressed into small sizes.
- Make sure that your news looks credible and trustworthy by adding an author bio.
- Make sure that you’ve interlinked your present Post with other posts related to the topic within your blog.
- Make sure that you have given the right information about the news to your audience as early as possible in your blog after the summary section.
- Make sure that you have added relevant tags and included your news blog in the relevant category of your news blog.
Now that you have completed all the steps you need to take to write a news blog step by step.
It’s time to either schedule or publishes your news blog on your news website.
This is my proven step-by-step guide on how to write a news blog post.
With that being said let’s conclude the blog.
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