<title>BBC Young Reporter Article Creator | Matthew Grove</title>
<title>BBC Young Reporter Article Generator | Matthew Grove</title>
<metaname="description"content="A tool to create markdown files from news articles and their metadata for uploading to the Reading School BBC Young Reporter website. | by Matthew Grove">
<p>Fill in the fields below, and then click the <em>download</em> button to create a file to be uploaded to Reading School’s BBC Young Reporter website.</p>
<h3id="instructions">Instructions</h3>
<p>Give the authors’ names in the format <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">First_Name Last_Initial</code>, and separate multiple authors with a comma - e.g. <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">John D, Emma S</code></p>
<p>Fill in the fields below, and then click the <em>download</em> button to generate a file to be uploaded to Reading School’s BBC Young Reporter website.</p>
<p>Give the authors’ names in the format <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">First_Name Last_Initial</code>, and separate multiple authors with a comma - e.g. <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">John D, Emma S</code>.</p>
<ul>
<li>If there are any headings inside your article, please place <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"># </code> in front of them.</li>
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<p>Other formatting can be done with the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>For italics, use <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">*my italic text*</code></li>
<li>For bold, use <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">**my bold text**</code></li>
<li>For bold and italics, use <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">***my bold, italic text***</code></li>
<li>For links, use <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">[text to show in article](URL)</code></li>
<li>To include an extra image (besides the cover image), use</li>
<li>For italics, use <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">*my italic text*</code>.</li>
<li>For bold, use <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">**my bold text**</code>.</li>
<li>For bold and italics, use <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">***my bold, italic text***</code>.</li>
<li>For links, use <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">[text to show in article](URL)</code>.</li>
<li>To include an extra image (besides the cover image), use:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>{% include image.html id=ID_OF_IMAGE caption="IMAGE_CAPTION" copyright="IMAGE_COPYRIGHT" %}</code></pre>
<p>replacing <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">ID_OF_IMAGE</code> with a unique ID for the image in your article - start at 1 for the first image (excluding the cover image).</p>
<p>The cover image for your article must be a JPEG image, and have the <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">jpg</code> file extension. If your image is a PNG, you can <ahref="https://png2jpg.com/">convert it using an online tool</a>. The file name must also be the same as your article’s file name. This will be provided to you when you download the file from this page. E.g. if the file you download from this page is <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">news-article.md</code> then your cover image must be <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">news-article.jpg</code> (capital letters <strong>DO</strong> matter).</p>
<p>Any extra images for your article must be in the format: <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">ARTICLE_FILE_NAME--extra-IMAGE_ID.jpg</code>, where you replace <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">ARTICLE_FILE_NAME</code> with the file name you used for the cover image, and <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">IMAGE_ID</code> with the ID you gave the image when you inserted it into your article’s body, as seen above. E.g.: <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">news-article--extra-1.jpg</code>.</p>
<p>Any extra images for your article must be in the format: <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">ARTICLE_FILE_NAME--extra-IMAGE_ID.jpg</code>, where you replace <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">ARTICLE_FILE_NAME</code> with the file name you used for the cover image, and <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">IMAGE_ID</code> with the ID you gave the image when you inserted it into your article’s body, as seen above. E.g.: <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">news-article--extra-1.jpg</code>.</p>
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<h3id="example">Example</h3>
<pre><code># Headline
## Heading2
### Heading3
#### Heading4
##### Heading5
###### Heading6
Some text.
1. Numbered item 1
2. **Numbered item 2**
* *Bullet 1*
* Bullet 2
***Bold & italics***
A link to [Google](https://google.com).</code></pre>
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