Do the headlines encourage empathy, or do they "other" the victims of crime? (Click to zoom in.)
As tempting as the pun might be, it would be bad journalism to refer to this incident as a "brief…
Headlines are important. (Send an editor some love.)
If you encounter the same story on different news sites, that does not mean you caught sneaky America-hating fake news…
The Society of Professional Journalists links to an interview with an MIT professor who's studying misinformation on social media (which…
Headlines from CNN and Fox shade in different directions, but both articles agree in substance that Trump got a mixed…
When a correspondent sent to Cuba to cover a possible war telegraphed that there would be no war and he…
This morning a journalism student told me a friend in a different class was complaining that "the media" was stigmatizing…
For the UK Guardian, the news is the words the White House used while accusing Acosta of an action caught…
If you were this person's attorney, you'd probably want this social media blurb phrased a little differently. The headline attached…
I already have some handouts on writing titles for web pages and writing titles for college papers. I don't (at…
My daughter and I were talking about prop newspapers, and she suggested making a newspaper prop with headlines such as "Actors…
I probably should not be surprised, but when I saw this run of several headlines on the ABC News website,…
Writers make mistakes. That's why we have editors. But editors make mistakes, too. I don't know the circumstances behind this particular…
This Time magazine article is a good one, but that "what you think you know is wrong" headline is more…
Headlines once were stuffed full of proper nouns. But it turns out, old-fashioned headlines don't convey things that aren't news…