This is how some of the leading Indian newspapers headlined Anna’s victory: The Times of India Anna wins it for the people Indian Express House sets stage for Anna breakfast Deccan Herald Anna bill bends govt will Deccan Chronicle How Team (P) broke deadlock The Tribune Parliament yields to Anna The Hindustan Times People’s...
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The anti-corruption movement launched by Anna Hazare has seen some good headlines written to capture the mood of the nation. The Easy Media desk chose the following seven for their play on words: The Times of India House hopes to send Anna Home (Aug 26) All roads lead to Annapolis (Aug 22) The Hindustan...
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The four most common headline problems are caused by: 1. Wrong use of prepositions 2. Use of unknown sobriquets 3. Overloading of headlines 4. Use of non-Indian terms Click on the link 4 common headline errors to hear the podcast. Related podcasts How to use verbs in headlines
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The Times of India ran a great report on the progress of monsoon in its Delhi edition dated August 10. The story was of particular interest to the people of Delhi as it outlined the possibility of rain in the coming days. It was a great news report for the readers of The Times....
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There are four tools that the editors use to establish the news value of a story. These are: 1. Headline width: A headline run across two, three, four or more columns signifies that the news report is important, and the editors have chosen to display it prominently. 2. Point size: The point size is...
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Have you noticed the strange fact that news reports are written in past tense and news headlines in present tense? There is, of course, nothing strange about it. This is how newspapers report an event, and have been reporting it ever since their evolution. The reason most news reports are written in the past...
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Comma is fine, and so is hyphen. Maybe you can use the question mark, the exclamation mark and the percentage symbol. But after that put a full stop to non-alpha characters. Reason: headlines that use non-alpha characters are ignored by search engines. They are like stop words, and the search engine spiders do not...
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