Read all about it Microsoft SharePoint News What is news? SharePoint news is an out-of-the-box distribution service that gets important content to personal, team, and organizational audiences across SharePoint apps and experiences. Built on modern pages and web parts, you can tell stories with rich, dynamic content.

Benefits of news distribution The benefit of news distribution is enhanced communication and sharing of knowledge throughout your organization. Here are some examples of ways to use news in different departments Benefits of news distribution Enable continuous knowledge sharing Post guidelines and best practices Get information to the field quickly Share customer visit and trip reports Announce campaigns Get eyes on the latest events Promote product launches Customer Support Marketing Provide status updates Post project results Highlight efficiencies and time savings Post earnings release Share analysis of economic trends and news Announce budget guidelines Operations & Project Management Finance Share reliability and service metrics Get automated reports from analytics tools Post guidelines and best practices Communicate training resources Announce the latest employee handbook Share news about people promotions Human Resources Engineering Share key customers wins Distribute latest company, product, and competitor news Highlight best practices Share templates and reusable assets Sales

Where news is distributed in SharePoint News is displayed across SharePoint experiences and apps: Office 365 | SharePoint Office 365 | SharePoint Office 365 | SharePoint Team Site Communication Site TS CS News from Sites + New + New News + Add see all News + Add see all SharePoint Home Team sites Communication sites Office 365 | SharePoint N News Title Hub Site CS News News Teams Hub sites Microsoft Teams SharePoint Mobile App

How to create news posts Add a post from SharePoint Home Add a post in a Team or Communication site Office 365 | SharePoint Office 365 | SharePoint A In the top bar, just click + New > News post. + Create news post Team Site News from Sites TS A + New News + Add B C see all B Under the News section header click + Add. C In the news section click the link See All > Create News post. Click Create news post. Team sites Office 365 | SharePoint Office 365 | SharePoint + Create news post Communication Site CS News from Sites Choose where to publish A + New News + Add News C + Add B see all Choose the site where you want to publish your news article. Communication sites On mobile, click + Add.

Customize your news post A Begin with adding a name which will serve as your headline. You can use the image toolbar on the left to add or change an image. C PUBLISH When you are done creating your page, click Publish at the top right, and you'll see the story appear in the News section as the most recent story. Conference Update B Click + to add web parts such as text, images, video, and more. Text Image File viewer Link Embed Highlighted Content

Use the News web part on a page You can add the News web part to any page. Just do this: News News News A B C Click the edit pencil on the left side of the News web part. Hover your mouse above or below an existing web part and you'll see a line with a circled +. Click on it. In the web part search box, enter News to quickly find and select the News web part. Layout Top story List Side-by-side Hub News Learn more about the News web part: https://aka.ms/sharepointnews D Select the layout you want to use.

Get your own copy of this and other SharePoint infographics Change the news source News posts are published to the Pages library of a site. You can select the site from which you want your news posts to come from. New Source Select sites Select a news source Search by title or enter URL This site Sites associated with this hub All sites in the hub Frequent Sites Select sites News A Click the edit pencil on the left side of the News web part. B Choose This site, All sites in the hub, or Select sites. C When you click Select sites, you can search for the site you want to add, or select one or more sites from Sites associated with this hub, Frequent sites, or Recent sites. Get your own copy of this and other SharePoint infographics aka.ms/getspinfographics