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Headlines matter. Were they migrants, people who happened to be at a migrant center, pedestrians, or manslaughter victims?

Do the headlines encourage empathy, or do they "other" the victims of crime?  (Click to zoom in.)    

2 years ago

I assume the police report didn’t specify what kind of underwear, because this headline is crying out for a very obvious pun.

As tempting as the pun might be, it would be bad journalism to refer to this incident as a "brief…

3 years ago

Headlines: Why editors matter in journalism.

Headlines are important. (Send an editor some love.)

4 years ago

When People Only Read the Headline — Misuse of Journalism

The Society of Professional Journalists links to an interview with an MIT professor who's studying misinformation on social media (which…

5 years ago

A tale of two headlines: CNN and Fox shade their reports of UFC crowd’s reaction to Trump

Headlines from CNN and Fox shade in different directions, but both articles agree in substance that Trump got a mixed…

5 years ago

Yellow Journalism Did Not Cause the Spanish-American War (Role of Sensationalized Headlines Often Exaggerated)

When a correspondent sent to Cuba to cover a possible war telegraphed that there would be no war and he…

5 years ago

A study in breaking news headlines.

For the UK Guardian, the news is the words the White House used while accusing Acosta of an action caught…

6 years ago

Details like headlines matter. Journalists should work hard to avoid being misread.

If you were this person's attorney, you'd probably want this social media blurb phrased a little differently. The headline attached…

7 years ago

10 questions to help you write better headlines

I already have some handouts on writing titles for web pages and writing titles for college papers. I don't (at…

7 years ago

Actors Fail to Distract Audience from Prop Newspaper Headlines

My daughter and I were talking about prop newspapers, and she suggested making a newspaper prop with headlines such as "Actors…

9 years ago

Clickbait Tactics Drive the Writing of Headlines on ABC News

I probably should not be surprised, but when I saw this run of several headlines on the ABC News website,…

9 years ago

Don’t Automatically Blame the Reporter for a Headline Error

Writers make mistakes. That's why we have editors. But editors make mistakes, too. I don't know the circumstances behind this particular…

9 years ago

Time article with clickbaity headline: Web users annoyed by marketing tricks

This Time magazine article is a good one, but that "what you think you know is wrong" headline is more…

9 years ago

Take A Minute To Watch The New Way We Make Web Headlines Now

Headlines once were stuffed full of proper nouns. But it turns out, old-fashioned headlines don't convey things that aren't news…

12 years ago