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Headlines

Headlines. Writing a Headline. The headline should relate to your story, stimulate the reader’s interest fit into the allocated space, and be grammatically correct. Guidelines: Use three, four, or five words. Use information from your lead. Use a short telegraphic style

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Headlines

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  1. Headlines

  2. Writing a Headline • The headline should relate to your story, stimulate the reader’s interest fit into the allocated space, and be grammatically correct. Guidelines: • Use three, four, or five words. • Use information from your lead. • Use a short telegraphic style • Poor: Royston Has Won the Zone Championship • Better: Royston Wins Zone Championship • Use present tense for past and present stories; use future tense for future stories • Make it attention grabbing. • For quoted material, use single rather than double quotation marks • Use a comma to replace the word and

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