NewsArticle

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Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from NewsArticle
dateline	Text	The location where the NewsArticle was produced.
printColumn	Text	The number of the column in which the NewsArticle appears in the print edition.
printEdition	Text	The edition of the print product in which the NewsArticle appears.
printPage	Text	If this NewsArticle appears in print, this field indicates the name of the page on which the article is found. Please note that this field is intended for the exact page name (e.g. A5, B18).
printSection	Text	If this NewsArticle appears in print, this field indicates the print section in which the article appeared.
Properties from Article
articleBody	Text	The actual body of the article.
articleSection	Text	Articles may belong to one or more 'sections' in a magazine or newspaper, such as Sports, Lifestyle, etc.
pageEnd	Integer  or Text	The page on which the work ends; for example "138" or "xvi".
pageStart	Integer  or Text	The page on which the work starts; for example "135" or "xiii".
pagination	Text	Any description of pages that is not separated into pageStart and pageEnd; for example, "1-6, 9, 55" or "10-12, 46-49".
wordCount	Integer	The number of words in the text of the Article.
Properties from CreativeWork
about	Thing	The subject matter of the content.
accessibilityAPI	Text	Indicates that the resource is compatible with the referenced accessibility API (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).
accessibilityControl	Text	Identifies input methods that are sufficient to fully control the described resource (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).
accessibilityHazard	Text	A characteristic of the described resource that is physiologically dangerous to some users. Related to WCAG 2.0 guideline 2.3 (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).
aggregateRating	AggregateRating	The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item.
alternativeHeadline	Text	A secondary title of the CreativeWork.
associatedMedia	MediaObject	A media object that encodes this CreativeWork. This property is a synonym for encoding.
audience	Audience	An intended audience, i.e. a group for whom something was created. Supersedes serviceAudience.
award	Text	An award won by or for this item. Supersedes awards.
character	Person	Fictional person connected with a creative work.
citation	CreativeWork  or Text	A citation or reference to another creative work, such as another publication, web page, scholarly article, etc.
comment	Comment	Comments, typically from users.
commentCount	Integer	The number of comments this CreativeWork (e.g. Article, Question or Answer) has received. This is most applicable to works published in Web sites with commenting system; additional comments may exist elsewhere.
contentLocation	Place	The location depicted or described in the content. For example, the location in a photograph or painting.
contentRating	Text	Official rating of a piece of content—for example,'MPAA PG-13'.
copyrightHolder	Organization  or Person	The party holding the legal copyright to the CreativeWork.
copyrightYear	Number	The year during which the claimed copyright for the CreativeWork was first asserted.
dateModified	Date  or DateTime	The date on which the CreativeWork was most recently modified or when the item's entry was modified within a DataFeed.
datePublished	Date	Date of first broadcast/publication.
discussionUrl	URL	A link to the page containing the comments of the CreativeWork.
editor	Person	Specifies the Person who edited the CreativeWork.
encoding	MediaObject	A media object that encodes this CreativeWork. This property is a synonym for associatedMedia. Supersedes encodings.
exampleOfWork	CreativeWork	A creative work that this work is an example/instance/realization/derivation of. Inverse property: workExample.
fileFormat	Text  or URL	Media type, typically MIME format (see IANA site) of the content e.g. application/zip of a SoftwareApplication binary. In cases where a CreativeWork has several media type representations, 'encoding' can be used to indicate each MediaObject alongside particular fileFormat information. Unregistered or niche file formats can be indicated instead via the most appropriate URL, e.g. defining Web page or a Wikipedia entry.
funder	Organization  or Person	A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
genre	Text  or URL	Genre of the creative work or group.
hasPart	CreativeWork	Indicates a CreativeWork that is (in some sense) a part of this CreativeWork. Inverse property: isPartOf.
headline	Text	Headline of the article.
inLanguage	Language  or Text	The language of the content or performance or used in an action. Please use one of the language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard. See also availableLanguage. Supersedes language.
interactionStatistic	InteractionCounter	The number of interactions for the CreativeWork using the WebSite or SoftwareApplication. The most specific child type of InteractionCounter should be used. Supersedes interactionCount.
isAccessibleForFree	Boolean	A flag to signal that the publication is accessible for free. Supersedes free.
isBasedOn	CreativeWork  or Product  or URL	A resource that was used in the creation of this resource. This term can be repeated for multiple sources. For example, http://example.com/great-multiplication-intro.html. Supersedes isBasedOnUrl.
isFamilyFriendly	Boolean	Indicates whether this content is family friendly.
isPartOf	CreativeWork	Indicates a CreativeWork that this CreativeWork is (in some sense) part of. Inverse property: hasPart.
keywords	Text	Keywords or tags used to describe this content. Multiple entries in a keywords list are typically delimited by commas.
learningResourceType	Text	The predominant type or kind characterizing the learning resource. For example, 'presentation', 'handout'.
license	CreativeWork  or URL	A license document that applies to this content, typically indicated by URL.
locationCreated	Place	The location where the CreativeWork was created, which may not be the same as the location depicted in the CreativeWork.
mainEntity	Thing	Indicates the primary entity described in some page or other CreativeWork. Inverse property: mainEntityOfPage.
mentions	Thing	Indicates that the CreativeWork contains a reference to, but is not necessarily about a concept.
offers	Offer	An offer to provide this item—for example, an offer to sell a product, rent the DVD of a movie, perform a service, or give away tickets to an event.
producer	Organization  or Person	The person or organization who produced the work (e.g. music album, movie, tv/radio series etc.).
provider	Organization  or Person	The service provider, service operator, or service performer; the goods producer. Another party (a seller) may offer those services or goods on behalf of the provider. A provider may also serve as the seller. Supersedes carrier.
recordedAt	Event	The Event where the CreativeWork was recorded. The CreativeWork may capture all or part of the event. Inverse property: recordedIn.
releasedEvent	PublicationEvent	The place and time the release was issued, expressed as a PublicationEvent.
review	Review	A review of the item. Supersedes reviews.
spatialCoverage	Place	The spatialCoverage of a CreativeWork indicates the place(s) which are the focus of the content. It is a subproperty of contentLocation intended primarily for more technical and detailed materials. For example with a Dataset, it indicates areas that the dataset describes: a dataset of New York weather would have spatialCoverage which was the place: the state of New York. Supersedes spatial.
sponsor	Organization  or Person	A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. e.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event.
temporalCoverage	DateTime  or Text  or URL	The temporalCoverage of a CreativeWork indicates the period that the content applies to, i.e. that it describes, either as a DateTime or as a textual string indicating a time period in ISO 8601 time interval format. In the case of a Dataset it will typically indicate the relevant time period in a precise notation (e.g. for a 2011 census dataset, the year 2011 would be written "2011/2012"). Other forms of content e.g. ScholarlyArticle, Book, TVSeries or TVEpisode may indicate their temporalCoverage in broader terms - textually or via well-known URL. Written works such as books may sometimes have precise temporal coverage too, e.g. a work set in 1939 - 1945 can be indicated in ISO 8601 interval format format via "1939/1945". Supersedes datasetTimeInterval, temporal.
thumbnailUrl	URL	A thumbnail image relevant to the Thing.
version	Number  or Text	The version of the CreativeWork embodied by a specified resource.
workExample	CreativeWork	Example/instance/realization/derivation of the concept of this creative work. eg. The paperback edition, first edition, or eBook. Inverse property: exampleOfWork.
Properties from Thing
additionalType	URL	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
alternateName	Text	An alias for the item.
description	Text	A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription	Text	A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
image	ImageObject  or URL	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage	CreativeWork  or URL	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity.
name	Text	The name of the item.
potentialAction	Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs	URL	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Freebase page, or official website.
url	URL	URL of the item.

Instances of NewsArticle may appear as values for the following properties

Property	On Types	Description
associatedArticle	MediaObject	A NewsArticle associated with the Media Object.

Available properties in extensions

• For CreativeWork in the bib extension: publisherImprint
• For CreativeWork in the pending extension: accessModeSufficient

Acknowledgement

This class contains derivatives of IPTC rNews properties. rNews is a data model of publishing metadata with serializations currently available for RDFa as well as HTML5 Microdata. More information about the IPTC and rNews can be found at rnews.org.

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