How to Write Newspaper Headlines: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Peggy Charlton from Expert Village. Every news story or featured story tells the story first in the headlines and every one knows what a headline is. A headline is a catchy, very few words in bigger bolder print than in the news story. The headline definitely needs to reflect what is in the story. There are magazines that are quite not journalistically sound that a lot of times writes crazy headlines and then you come in to read this story the tabloids paper and it is not anything like it was on the front. You know those headlines that say I had an alien baby and this like that so you need to be very truthful and I will get into that later in your liable aspect of writing. Your headlines always needs to reflect in your story and I will give you some example. "