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-===== News =====
+===== News: short, visible editorial communication =====
 ==== What is News in HORTUS? ====
-News items are short editorial communications.
+In HORTUS, **News** is the platform’s editorial and communication layer. It is the structured space used to publish announcements, highlight updates, circulate calls, communicate progress, and make important information visible to the research community in a fast and accessible way. While Projects provide long-term research context and Events organize time-bound activities, News is the feature that gives HORTUS its sense of movement, rhythm, and ongoing life.
-They are used for:
+A News item is not simply an isolated message. It is a curated communication object that can be categorized, illustrated, linked to project pages, and published in a way that makes it easy to scan, search, and understand. This is what makes News so useful in a platform like HORTUS: it allows the community to remain informed without forcing researchers to search across multiple channels or to reconstruct context from fragmented updates.
-  * announcements
+News in HORTUS serves **three major functions**.
-  * project updates
-  * calls for participation
-  * institutional communication
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+First, it is a **community awareness tool**. Research infrastructures produce a constant flow of updates: a tool is released, a dataset becomes available, a workshop is announced, a training module is published, a platform feature changes, or a project reaches an important milestone. Without a dedicated editorial layer, these signals are easily lost. The News feature provides that layer. It turns important developments into visible, structured announcements that the community can browse and monitor over time. For the user, this means less effort spent tracking scattered communications and more visibility into what is actually changing across the platform.
-==== Your News User Experience ====
+Second, it is a **dissemination tool**. News allows projects, teams, and contributors to transform progress into public awareness. A research group may want to announce a new publication, the release of a dataset, the availability of a digital tool, or the publication of teaching materials. Through News, that information becomes easier to circulate and easier to understand. It is no longer hidden in an email thread or an external website update: it becomes part of the shared HORTUS information space. This is particularly valuable for young researchers, because News often reveals what is active, emerging, and open for engagement inside the platform.
-Users can:
+Third, it is a **context-building tool**. News items in HORTUS are not generic posts. From the creation workflow, they can be categorized by type and linked to one or more research resources or project pages. This means that a News item can remain connected to the initiative it refers to. Instead of being a detached announcement, it becomes an editorial extension of ongoing research work. This linkage is important because it helps the user move naturally from “I saw an announcement” to “I understand which project or initiative this belongs to.”
-  * browse news lists
+One of the strengths of News is its design for **fast scanning and rapid interpretation**. Compared with Projects, which are deeper and more structural, and compared with Events, which focus on participation in an activity, News is optimized for quick visibility. It usually presents concise textual content, a title, a date, an image or thumbnail, a category label, and a short summary. This allows researchers to understand quickly what kind of update they are seeing and whether it matters for their own work.
-  * open detailed posts
-  * follow related projects or topics
-News is:
+A typical News item in HORTUS may include:
-  * concise
+    * a title that clearly communicates the announcement
-  * visible
+    * a news type or category, such as Technology, Science, Education, Research, or Innovation
-  * linked to context (project or institution)
+    * a rich-text body with paragraphs, lists, and links
+    * one or more authors
+    * tags that improve searchability and thematic browsing
+    * an optional image to improve visual recognition and communication impact
+    * one or more linked institutional pages or project pages
+    * a place in the News stream where it can be found again through search or sorting
+This combination makes News both lightweight and structured. It is lightweight because it is easy to publish and easy to read. It is structured because it supports classification, context, and discoverability.
+For the user, News answers a very practical question: **“What is new here that I should not miss?”** A researcher does not always need a full project page or a long event description. Sometimes they simply need a clear signal that something relevant has happened: a new call, a released resource, an update from a project, a feature now available, or a change in documentation. The News feature is designed to deliver exactly that kind of signal.
+For a young researcher or doctoral candidate, News can be one of the most attractive entry points into HORTUS. It provides a fast overview of what is active in the community, what new opportunities exist, and where relevant work is emerging.
+For maintainers and contributors, News is equally important. It offers a practical way to make work visible without requiring the creation of a full project or a full resource workflow each time.
+Another important strength of News is that it supports editorial clarity. Because items are categorized and can include images, tags, and project links, the News stream remains more readable than a generic feed of undifferentiated messages. Users can scan it quickly, search by keyword, sort by date, and identify announcements that matter to them. In this way, News helps HORTUS remain not only informative, but navigable.
+A good way to think about News in HORTUS is this:
+** NEWS IS THE HORTUS’ EDITORIAL BROADCAST LAYER. **
+It transforms updates, milestones, calls, and releases into visible community information that is easy to publish, easy to discover, and easy to connect back to research work.
+In practical terms, the News feature helps the user to:
+  * stay aware of what is changing across the platform
+  * discover important announcements without relying on external channels
+  * identify which updates are relevant through categories and keywords
+  * move from an announcement to the related project context
+  * monitor progress, calls, releases, and editorial communication across HORTUS
+Taken together, these elements make News a key visibility feature in HORTUS. It is the layer that keeps the platform intellectually and socially alive by ensuring that progress does not remain hidden inside teams, but becomes visible, understandable, and reusable for the wider research community
+====Your NEWS User eXperience (UX) in HORTUS  ====
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+^ News list CTA ^ How to use it ^ What it helps you do ^
+| **Filter by keyword** | Type into the keyword filter. | The list narrows to matching announcements. |
+| **Sort by date** | Choose ascending or descending date in the sort menu. | Older or newer items are prioritised depending on your need. |
+| **Open a news item**| Click the title or card. | You open the full article or detail page when available. |
+| **Create News** | Use the button visible for users with publishing permission. | You open the editorial creation form. |
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+^ News CTA ^ How to trigger it ^ What it helps you do ^
+| **Open the Overview tab** | Click Overview. | Return to the main article view, including the abstract, full news text, image, and contextual metadata. |
+| **Open the Discussions tab** | Click Discussions. | Move from the editorial content to the discussion area, where users can read or contribute comments related to the news item. |
+| **Go back **| Click Back in the Actions panel. | Return to the previous News list or browsing context without losing the reading flow. |
+| **Leave feedback** | Click Leave feedback in the Actions panel. | Start an interaction workflow around the news item, typically to post a comment, ask a question, or open a discussion linked to this announcement. |
+| **Edit the news item** | Click the pencil icon in the top-right action area. | Open the edit workflow for this news item so an authorized user can update the title, content, image, tags, or linked context. |
+| **Delete the news item** | Click the trash icon in the top-right action area. | Start the deletion workflow for this news item. This action is typically available only to an authorized maintainer or editor. |
+| **Share the news item** | Click the share icon in the top-right action area. | Open sharing options for the news item, usually to copy the link or distribute it through other channels. |
+| **Open the linked project** | Click the project link under Projects in the metadata panel. | Move from the announcement to the related project page in order to understand the broader research context behind the news item. |
+| **Open a hyperlink inside the news body** | Click any visible URL in the article text. | Follow an external or internal reference mentioned in the news content, for example to visit the HORTUS platform or another related destination. |
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