A website for media students and media scholars

  • Journalism
  • Headline Writing
  • Content Marketing
  • Blogging
  • Interviews
  • AI
  • Insights
  • Design
  • News Editing
  • Social Media
  • Advertising
  • Public Relations
  • Web Journalism
  • J Schools
  • About Us

Headlines

Tips for writing stunning headlines for blogs, websites and newspapers

No Image

How headlines establish news value

May 22, 2014 Sunil Saxena 1

There are four characteristics of newspapers headlines that editors use to establish the news value of a story. These are: 1. Headline width A newspaper […]

No Image

How the Indian newspapers headlined the Modi tsunami

May 17, 2014 Sunil Saxena 0

How do you headline an event which is a turning point in the nation’s history? How do you capture its momentous nature when its every […]

No Image

What are kickers and why newspapers use them even today

May 14, 2014 Sunil Saxena 3

In India, they call it shoulder, and in the US they call it kicker. But in both countries the kicker or shoulder is a great […]

No Image

Find out how Buzzfeed has turned headline writing upside down

February 20, 2014 Sunil Saxena 0

There was a time when headlines were staid, sober and short, some may even say cramped. This was the golden era of newspaper headlines. You […]

No Image

How India’s English media headlined Assembly results

December 9, 2013 Sunil Saxena 0

Broomed. That’s how The Telegraph headlined the humbling of Congress in the four states where Assembly elections were held. The pun was also on broom, […]

No Image

What is a banner headline

September 29, 2013 Sunil Saxena 0

“Rahul Trashes Ordinance, Shames Government” The Jaipur edition of The Times of India ran this headline across eight columns on its front page on September […]

No Image

How headline writers save space

September 24, 2013 Sunil Saxena 0

Over the decades, headline writers have developed a grammar of their own. The headlines that they write are more like “skeletonised” sentences that are written […]

No Image

How to use attribution in headlines

September 23, 2013 Sunil Saxena 0

One of the first things that cub journalists are taught is to source reports. By doing so, they establish the credibility of their reports.  The […]

No Image

5 differences between print and web headlines

September 11, 2013 Sunil Saxena 0

Most Indian newspapers shovel the entire report – text, headline and picture – online. You wonder if this is the right practice. Does it make […]

Posts pagination

« 1 2 3 4 »

Subscribe to Easy Media

LATEST POSTS

  • 11 AI Tools That Can Supercharge Your Content
  • AI can help you prepare interview questions and save hours of your time
  • Why you should turn to AI if you are a blogger and stuck for ideas
  • A step-by-step guide for crafting perfect features
  • AI can create professional questionnaires in minutes

Most Read Posts

  • What is commercial radio and how it has grown in India
  • 8 tips to cover press conferences
  • Do we need sideheads in the editorial?
  • How to use punctuation marks in headlines
  • 5 tested rules to follow when writing news headlines
  • The first press regulations came in 1799
  • 8 key characteristics of Social Networking Sites
  • 11 AI Tools That Can Supercharge Your Content
  • 6 types of search engines that can change your search habits
  • Facebook to screen News Feed links, penalise spammers

Search Easy Media

Copyright © 2025 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes

Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}
 

Loading Comments...