The Star Tribune on Instagram
By Maia Irvin
I think that the Star Tribune generally does a good job of posting news content on their social media pages, especially Instagram. The story that the Tribune posted on Instagram about the sled dog marathon had a good layout for news content on social media.
The post had most of the necessary and basic information as well as a colorful and lively anecdote in the post's caption. The post itself was a series of several pictures depicting the characters described in the anecdote. The full story on the Tribune's website is then linked at the bottom of the caption.
I think that sharing news content like this is different than a traditional story because there are more pictures, and the pictures are what catch the eye and are highlighted in the post since Instagram is a platform meant for sharing pictures for the most part. The point of a post like this is to catch the eyes of readers who are quickly scrolling past and may not otherwise read the story.
I like the post because of this, and I think that whoever put it together did a good job of choosing the pictures to showcase, especially the first picture that appears and initially captures people's attention. I do think though that the caption could have included more of the basic information of the story because it mainly focused on the anecdote, which was a great anecdote, but it did not really feel like a news story. However, maybe that was the whole point behind the post.
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