How to Create Social Media Captions from a News Article Using AI Summarizer?

For journalists, creating informative yet concise social media captions from news articles is a hectic task. This is because they not only have to read the article thoroughly to understand the core message but also need to ensure that the captions perfectly adhere to social media character limits.

Luckily, this challenge is now easier to tackle. With the introduction of intelligent tools like AI summarizers, journalists can automatically condense news articles to extract the main crux that can be used as captions on social media platforms. This blog will explain the steps that you need to take in this regard.

Steps for Creating a Social Media Caption from a News Article Using Summarizer

Below we have discussed some of the steps that you need to follow to craft captions from a news article using an AI summarizing tool.

1. Find a Reliable AI Summarizer

In the first step, you have to explore the internet to find the most suitable AI-powered summarizer that will help you condense news articles for creating captions. You will definitely come across a plethora of tools, with everyone claiming to be the “Best in the Business.”

Unfortunately, not every is capable of effectively summarizing news article. That’s why, it is necessary to pick carefully. To help you out, below, we have discussed some important factors that you can consider:

• You must need to find an article summarizer that operates on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. This will ensure maximum quickness and accuracy. You find information about the technologies on which the tool operates, you can read its tool content.
• Moreover, it would be great if you go for one that is capable of performing article summarization in different languages. This feature will be enough to understand its reliability and versatility.
• Finally, pay attention to the word limit as well. And try to find one that offers a handsome word limit to summarize longer articles.

We picked AI summarizer that fulfills all the aforementioned factors. Another reason behind the selection is that it is dominating the top Google results.

To make it easy for you to understand the steps, we will be using it for illustration throughout this blog.

2. Input the News Article

When you are done with tool selection, it's time to input the news article whose sweet and concise social media caption you want to create. Most AI summarizers provide multiple options for entering input.

For instance, journalists can either paste the news article in the input box or upload the file (.Doc, .Docx, .TXT) from local storage.

To demonstrate better, copied and pasted an article (discussing poll results of US elections) from Google News in our selected AI summarizer, and this is how its interface looks now.

3. Adjust the Length & Start Summarization

Almost every modern AI summarizer available online provides users with the option to adjust the summary length the tool should generate. So, according to specific needs and requirements, journalists should adjust the caption length.

When done, all they need to do is just click the “Summarize” button. The tool will start condensing the entered news article to create a concise summary that can be used as a social media caption.

For a better, we adjusted the length as minimum as possible. A screenshot is also attached below as a reference.

4. Get Output Summary

Within a few seconds after starting the summarization process, the tool will come up with an output summary (based on your selected length). Journalists can use that summary as a social media caption.

In our case, the results AI summarizer provided can be seen in the attachment below.

As the above screenshot tells, the AI summarizer has extracted the main crux from the news article and explained it with a few sentences. We think the length of the output is perfect for a social media caption.

Useful Tip: Always carefully review the generated summary to make sure that it is perfect in terms of meaning, grammar, coherency, etc.

5. Run Output Again to Achieve More Conciseness (Optional)

This step is conditional. If you are not satisfied with the length of the output caption provided by the summarizer tool, there is no need to worry. You can copy the output and then again run it through the tool to further make it concise.

Repeat this process, until you get a result that perfectly matches your length requirements.

Wrapping Up

Manually crafting an informative, engaging, and brief social media caption for a news story is a daunting task. You have to carefully structure the main story within a few sentences. It’s like covering a whole ocean in a cup.

Some journalists may find this difficult, so for them, an AI summarizer tool can be a good option. It will automatically condense the news article to generate a few-sentence summary that can be used as a caption. However, you still have the authority to further refine it as per your specific needs and requirements.