News

The News web part in SharePoint helps site owners keep their audience informed and engaged by publishing updates, announcements, and stories directly on the site’s homepage.

Benefits

• Keeps everyone informed by sharing updates, announcements, and key information in a central, visible location
• Increases engagement by promoting stories, news, or wins that highlight team efforts and achievements
• Supports communication strategies by aligning messaging with leadership updates, project milestones, or upcoming events
• Allows for scheduling and versioning of posts to align with business timelines and approval processes
• Offers customization options like images, headlines, and rich text formatting to create more visual and appealing content
• Enhances discoverability by using audience targeting, metadata, and categorization to surface relevant news to the right users

Key Features

• Multiple layout options (Top Story, Side-by-Side, List, Carousel, Hub News, Grid)
• Audience Targeting to show relevant news based on user profiles or groups
• News post scheduling for timed publishing
• Customizable thumbnails, headers, and display templates
• Supports roll-up of news from other SharePoint sites
• Email a single news post to targeted audiences
• Compile and send a news digest containing multiple news posts