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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.)
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…
Headlines: Why editors matter in journalism.
Headlines are important. (Send an editor some love.)
The phrase “debate begins” in the headlines of multiple stories on coronavirus does not mean sneaky journalists copy-pasted a press release
If you encounter the same story on different news sites, that does not mean you caught sneaky America-hating fake news…
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…
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…
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…
My Student Calls Out a Mental Health Stigma in a Biased Headline — But Here’s Why We Shouldn’t Blame “The Media”
This morning a journalism student told me a friend in a different class was complaining that "the media" was stigmatizing…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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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,…
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…
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…
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…