#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – writing better headlines
August 2nd, 2011Posted by Rachel McAthy in Top tips for journalists
Over on Poynter, deputy editor of StarTribune.com Matt Thompson runs through a series of questions to ask when producing the headline for a story, from the seemingly obvious but still overlooked “is it accurate” and “does it work out of context”, to whether it would benefit from the inclusion of a number or an “implication”.
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August 2nd, 2011 at 11:31 pm
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