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newspaper headline

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Noun1.newspaper headline - the heading or caption of a newspaper articlenewspaper headline - the heading or caption of a newspaper article
newspaper, paper - a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements; "he read his newspaper at breakfast"
header, heading, head - a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"
drop line, dropline, stagger head, staggered head, stephead, stepped line - a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right
screamer - a sensational newspaper headline
banner, streamer - a newspaper headline that runs across the full page


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From a newspaper headline, you can get the gist of a story and the angle all at once.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Each player thinks up an imaginary newspaper headline and writes it at the top of his or her paper.
Proximity, as every new journalist is taught, is one of the principal criteria of newsworthiness, hence the oft-quoted provincial newspaper headline, Titanic sinks: local man safe.
 
 
 
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