Adding a caption to a photograph you've taken to illustrate a story can sometimes be as difficult as coming up with the right headline for an article – you have to to make it snappy and accurate, and there's usually not much space to work with.
In this post from NPR Training, former NPR homepage editor Stephanie Federico points out that captions should be "fact-chcked and typo-checked" and highlights some guidelines from the organisation's style guide.
For example, captions should include the 5Ws of any story without "stating the obvious" and they should add context so that readers are not left assuming what's what.
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