
Advertisers and marketers classify advertising headlines slightly differently into questions, commands, benefits, news/information, and provocation. Research in 1980 classified newspaper headlines into four broad categories: questions, commands, statements, and explanations. In the United States, headline contests are sponsored by the American Copy Editors Society, the National Federation of Press Women, and many state press associations some contests consider created content already published, others are for works written with winning in mind. The New York Times 's 21 July 1969 front page stated, for example, that " MEN WALK ON MOON", with the four words in gigantic size spread from the left to right edges of the page. The most important story on the front page above the fold may have a larger headline if the story is unusually important. It is generally written by a copy editor, but may also be written by the writer, the page layout designer, or other editors. Flip a phrase.The New York Times uses an unusually large headline to announce the Armistice with Germany at the end of World War I.Ī headline's purpose is to quickly and briefly draw attention to the story. Try switching, dropping or adding a vowel. Want to write an award-winning headline yourself? Play with the English language. Today, the ‘Hollywood for engineers’ unveils its first poet laureate

Switch a vowel.Ĭopy editors for The Los Angeles Times dropped an “o” from a word to create this headline, an ACES award winner: A circuit bard for Silicon Valley Computerese isn’t the only language in the capital of high tech. But when you use words that sound similar, you can come up with a good pun that’s worthy of the front pages of the New York Post. How can you list, rhyme and twist your way to a winning feature headline? Of course, you’ll avoid groan-worthy punny headlines. This headline from a New York Times “DataBank” piece covering a blistering (and bearish) week in August played off a familiar phrase: It’s Not the Heat, It’s the EconomyĪnd eMarketer editors used this approach to create this line to head a story covering : Silly Rabbit, These Clicks Aren’t For Kids
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