The previous Imperial News website was a standalone website created in 2014. The design was not aligned with the new brand, and the system and servers need to be updated.
As part of the broader Imperial website redesign project, the Imperial News site has been redeveloped in TerminalFour, our main Imperial Content Management System (CMS). Over 80% of news editors currently used T4, and a full programme of work, including training and content migration, was completed successfully on 19 November 2025.
Training
To be able to create stories in the new system, you’ll need to have completed two training courses:
- Main T4 CMS course (covers how to create and edit content in the main Imperial content management system) – request T4 training here if you haven’t yet done it
- News-specific training (covers all aspects of how to create and edit articles in the new News system) – request News training here if you haven’t yet done it
Note that if you’ve previously completed T4 training, you can go straight into the News module.
Frequently asked questions
- I’ve completed both courses – what next?
- In which path should I create my real articles?
- What has happened to old published articles?
- What has happened to old draft/unpublished articles?
- I have recreated an old article in T4, can I set up a redirect?
- How do I request new owning groups or tags?
- How do I add another author's article to my news feed?
- How do I request a news feed on my web pages?
After completing both courses, you’ll have full access to the new News system. You can then begin to create news articles relating to your area of Imperial.
In training, you used the path:
Newsroom » Main Imperial news articles » Training news articles » 2025
For creating real articles, you should scan the folder categories under ‘Main Imperial news articles’ and create your article under the ‘year’ folder of the relevant category.
E.g., if I wanted to add an article for the Department of Brain Sciences, I would use this path:
Newsroom » Main Imperial news articles » Faculty of Medicine news articles » Department of Brain Sciences news articles » 2025
Any published articles set up in the old News system have been archived and are accessible from the search page. This means that none of the articles you had previously created are lost.
Any draft/unpublished articles in the old News site have been permanently removed as part of the project.
If you have recreated an existing news article in T4 (or plan to), then we can set up a redirect from the old article to the new one, so that people visiting the old article URL will automatically be shown the new version of the article. We can also request for the old article to be removed from the archive.
To request a redirect please email Geoff Day or Adam Piccolo in the Digital team.
When requesting a redirect please provide the URL of the old news article e.g. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/270053/new-study-challenges-ecological-fears-around/ and the published URL of the article created in T4.
Any requests received by 5pm on a Monday, will be set up by 8am on the following Wednesday. Any requests received after 5pm on a Monday will be added to the following week's requests.
To request either a new owning group or a tag to be added to the system, please contact the Digital team (Adam Piccolo a.piccolo@imperial.ac.uk or Geoff Day g.day@imperial.ac.uk).
In order to include a news article in your feed it must include either the owning group or tags that are used to generate your feed.
We would recommend contacting the author of the article first, and you can either ask them to add your owning group/tag to the article or you can ask them if they are happy for you to edit the article and add these yourself.
If you are unsure how your news feed has been set up, please contact your Faculty Web Officer.
To get a news feed set up on your T4 web pages, you should contact your Faculty Web Officer, who will be able to set this up for you.
More information on news feeds on T4 web pages.