Multimedia

Multimedia

Use Multimedia for podcast, video, interview, transcript, and media-feed entries.

Operator focus

Use this guide when an item is primarily podcast, video, interview, transcript, or feed content. The June walkthrough and July review both separated multimedia from ordinary article work because media records have extra fields and more image/feed failure modes.

Prerequisites

• The related article or media entry has approved title, slug, body, publish date, contributor, and lead image.
• Audio, video, transcript, and feed metadata are ready when the entry should appear on multimedia surfaces.

Steps

1. Open Multimedia.
2. Create or edit a Media entry.
3. Add audio URL, video URL, transcript, video title, lead image, and media RSS fields as applicable.
4. Save draft.
5. Preview /podcasts or the target media route.
6. Publish or schedule when validation passes.

Review checklist

Check	Why it matters
Media type	determines whether the public surface treats the record as podcast, video, interview, or transcript work
Audio/video URL	broken URLs create dead public media experiences
Transcript	often required for editorial quality and search/Ask context
Lead image	fallback images are a known review issue; use upload when paste is unreliable
Feed flags	controls whether the item appears in podcast/media feeds

Resulting state

Published multimedia entries become available to the /podcasts experience and any configured media feeds. Draft entries remain internal.

Permissions

Operators need CMS write access. Feed publication should be limited to approved audio/video items.

Failure cases and recovery

• Broken media URL: replace the field and re-preview.
• Missing transcript: keep the entry draft until the transcript is available or explicitly approved as absent.
• Incorrect feed inclusion: remove the media RSS flag, save, and verify the feed.
• Repeated fallback image: capture the media slug and image source, then use upload rather than clipboard paste before escalating.