EDITING

“Headline Writing”
Indri Wahyuni (166310728)
Vadella Zumarlin (166310892)
 headline is a line or collection of lines of display
type that precedes a news story and summarises it.
NATURE OF headlines caption hard news
HEADLINES stories

headlines are summaries (of

leads, of stories)

They can sell a unique part of a

story

they tap the benefit of sentences to

convey complete thought
 There are some Basic
Requirements of
Headlines

Deep understanding of the A sharp sense of sentence

story A vocabulary that is far-reaching structure
and deep

An aptitude for detecting

ambiguity and inconsistencies
 Skills of Headlines Writing
1. Tell the story’s essentials
2. Isolate the past from what is new
3. Headlines should not only tell the bare facts
4. Put the key facts at the top
5. Put the headline in sentence form
6. Build heads around verbs
7. Don’t repeat words in heads
8. Avoid structural repetition
9. Tell the story in specific Terms
10. Make line and thought break at the same time
11. In order to overcome bias, the headline writer needs some self-disciplinary
practices that help him write good headlines
12. Sometime the verb, especially the ‘be verbs’ are eliminated in headlines
13. The period and semi-colon are almost non-existed in headlines
14. Words should be used in contexts where their intended meanings are
unmistakable
15. Editors should also avoid over-generalizations in headlines
16. Headline writers are advised to read healings thoroughly especially after a
rewrite
17. Creativity in headline writing
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