News is everywhere now a days and you can get it almost anywhere. Fewer and fewer people are looking to newspapers and magazines to read about their current events. This is happening more and more in sports media. Outlets like twitter and Instagram are becoming more and more popular so you need to learn how to adjust and learn to write for them as much as you need to learn to write normal articles in magazines or news papers.

First things first lets just review some of the basics of you’re writing for a newspaper or a magazine is to be specific as possible on what you’re talking about. If you’re covering a specific game make sure to take every aspect of the game into consideration, if you’re covering a player be sure to get the whole story on that player and talk about everything they’re about. The most important part of these articles in these types of outlets are always the quotes. Quotes, quotes, and more quotes! Remember the more you get from the people involved the more credibility your story has.

Now to move onto the new platforms how do you make an article on twitter or Instagram first things first you need to stick out. With thousands of different accounts out there everyone is going to try and stick out from the rest so here are some tips to make your article easier to see. The main thing to remember that people are commonly easily distracted online so get to the point quickly. You want your tagline to catch their attention and but not to be to long that they begin to look away. Another way to catch someone’s attention is a vibrant picture. Remember people are easily distracted when using social media so anything to have your page stick out is going to work in your favor.

Now what should you do with the actual article itself? Well depending on where your posting it you may have more leeway online as to what content you can or cannot post. Fell free to be more upfront and vocal when writing a post for a social media account. If it’s a blog you’re running then feel free to post whatever you want in anyway you would like remember it’s the internet and you’re open to have an opinion. Just remember you have to stand by your work, if someone doesn’t like what you have to say you have to own up to everything.

Social media sites are starting to run the world and its becoming hard to avoid them. You need to use this to your advantages not avoid them. Someone who is gifted on multiple platforms are more likely to excel as opposed to those who don’t. What social media sites do you use? Post them in the comments below and remember, Never stop reporting!