How to differentiate the two descriptions of an image. Part of:How to write text descriptions (alt text) in BBC News articles Contributors Often, journalists spend time writing a good caption, then ...

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Scrolling through your Instagram as of late, you might have seen your standard run-of-the-mill caption, followed by another sentence or two marked off by the letters “ID.” You probably noticed that ...

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Often, journalists spend time writing a good caption, then copy and paste it as their text description. This is bad practice and should not be done. A caption must: echo some information already ...