“Do we get all the information we need from just the headlines?”

🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS!!🚨🚨 Oh, you broke it, all right...

Here in Uruguay, headline's are becoming so long thaat they don't fit feeder tiles. And they still don't tell much.

Today in a sports section: "The clear opinion of Óscar Ruggieri about the penalty that was awarded to Racing against Peñarol at Libertadores Cup, and what he said of the referee; watch the video"

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Is This the Headline that Finally Defies Betteridge's Law?

Headlines used to just say what was happening. These days, it’s not quite so simple (ps imagine this is in title case, our printing press broke).

headlines found to contain multiple sentences when once would have only contained single sentence

This is just one sentence with a sentence fragment. That clause needs to attach to an independent clause to conform to the rules of grammar. The period should be a comma; something that any headline editor would correct.

Should Headlines Be a Question? Not This Time.

But They’ve Stopped Reaffirming Betteridge’s Law of Headlines, Right?

Here’s why that’s important

In More Headlines, Two Sentences

Pity about the pithy.

Getting rid of character limits was a mistake.

At my local paper/website the second sentence is always: What to know.

Will, Headlines are so long they qualify as a podcast and come with sequels, prequels. Mitch e

For headlines, a new style emerges

Academic journal titles use to be one phrase: the theoretical burden of Walker Percy’s individualism and F Scott Fitzgerald’s elitism

Ledes used to be 40 words, and not buried.

Doesn't count unless you can blame an age cohort for killing it.

Also Shocking, Exposed, Humiliated

lol

can i please screenshot this to blame buzzfeed?

Now repeat that exact two-sentence headline four times—as a banner, the headline, a pull quote, and the caption under the hero photo—before the article text starts.

Because "You won't believe what happened next" is a whole sentence by itself

Unless it’s a run on sentence. They’ll just keep going and cram it all in the headline but truncated so the grammar is like a riddle. I guess they figure you’ll have to click on it to sort it all out.🤣

SEO is a hell of a drug...

At least we stopped doing "Headlines used to have this one thing in common"

Headlines used to not have a period. Now sometimes they do, but not in the second sentence

People Used to Read the Article Beyond the Headline. Not Anymore.

Have Headlines Changed Forever? You Won't Believe What Happens Next.

Copy editors forget semicolons. Nobody misses them.

What does that mean? A sub-head is standard for many publications and websites. Former newspaper editor here.