The NewsItem class models those attributes common the Article and group of Media objects. The table below lists all attributes of the NewsItem class and provides the expected data type, and a definition of each attribute.

Attribute	Type	Definition
headline	xsd:string	A brief introduction to the content of the NewsItem.
alternativeHeadline	xsd:anyURI	A secondary headlineof the NewsItem.
copyrightNotice	xsd:string | xsd:anyURI | owl:thing	Any necessary copyright notice for claiming the intellectual property for the content.
copyrightYear	xsd:nonNegativeInteger	The year during which the claimed copyright was first asserted.
copyrightHolder	Person | Organization	The party holding the legal copyright to the NewsItem.
usageTerms	xsd:string | xsd:anyURI | owl:thing	A human or machine-readable statement about the usage terms pertaining to the NewsItem.
publishingPrinciples	xsd:string | xsd:anyURI | owl:thing	A link to a natural-language statement of the principles adhered to by the source of the NewsItem.
provider	Person | Organization	The person or organization that distributed the NewsItem.
sourceOrganization	Organization	The organization on whose behalf the creator was working.
creator	Person | Organization	The author/creator of this content.
contributor	Person | Organization	A secondary contributor to the item.
editor	Person | Organization	The person or organization who edited the NewsItem.
accountablePerson	Person	The person that is legally accountable for the NewsItem.
dateCreated	xsd:dateTime	The date on which the NewItem was created.
datePublished	xsd:dateTime	The date on which the NewItem was first made available online.
dateModified	xsd:dateTime	The date on which the NewItem was most recently modified
description	xsd:string	A free-form textual description of the NewsItem of the item. Publishers may find it helpful to view this as the "caption" for any Media objects.
about	Concept	Indicates that the NewsItem is specifically about a concept.
mentions	Concept	Indicates that the NewsItem contains a reference to, but is not necessarily about a concept.
genre	xsd:string | xsd:anyURI | owl:thing	A term describing the general editorial category of the article. Implementations are encouraged but not required to draw values for type of material from the IPTC Genre subject headings at http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/genre/ .
inLanguage	xsd:string	A language used by the news content specified according to IETF BCP 47 at http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47.
thumbnailUrl	xsd:anyURI	A thumbnail image relevant to the content.
dateline	xsd:string	The location where the content was produced.
comment	Comment	Comments, typically from users, on this NewsItem.
discussionUrl	xsd:anyURI | owl:thing	A link to the page containing the comments relating to this item.
interactionCount	xsd:string | xsd:anyURI | owl:thing	A count of a specific user interactions with this item—for example, 20 UserLikes, 5 UserComments, or 300 UserDownloads.  It is suggested but not required that users draw the interaction type from the controlled vocabulary provided by schema.org at: http://schema.org/UserInteraction
identifier	xsd:string	An identifier for a NewsItem. This ID can be generated by the underlying publishing system. No two distinct NewsItems from the same site should be assigned the same id, but a single NewsItem may have multiple ids.
version	xsd:integer	The version of the NewsItem embodied by a specified resource.

 

Below is an RDF/Turtle representation of portions our sample article modeled using the attributes specified in the NewsItem class. Please note that we've borrowed certain metadata values from the original Times Article (such as commentCount) to demonstrate the appropriate use of these attributes.

      @prefix rdf:  <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>  .
      @prefix rnews: <http://iptc.org/std/rNews/2011-10-07#> .
      <http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-Sample-Story>
        rnews:headline "Allies Are Split on Goal and Exit Strategy in Libya" ;
        rnews:alternativeHeadline "Allies are Split Over Final Goal of Libya Mission" ;
        rnews:alternativeHeadline "NATO Takes Command" ;
        rnews:alternativeHeadline "Strategy for an Exit and the Fate of Qaddafi Remain Murky" ;
        rnews:alternativeHeadline "Ultimate Goal of Mission In Libya Divides Allies" ;
        rnews:copyrightNotice <http://www.nytimes.com/content/help/rights/copyright/copyright-notice.html>  ;
        rnews:dateCreated  "2011-03-24" ;
        rnews:description "The questions about the command mirrored the  strategic divisions over how the coalition will end the operation." ;
        rnews:inLanguage "en" ;
        rnews:thumbnailUri  <http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/common/icons/t_wb_75.gif>  ;
        rnews:usageTerms <http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/agree.html>  ;
        rnews:interactionCount "2 UserComments"  ;
        rnews:discussionUrl <http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/world/africa/25policy.html>  ;
        rnews:genre <http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/genre/Current>  ;
        rnews:identifier  "1248069687395" ;
        rnews:version "1" .