Today's Front Pages | Newspaper Headlines
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Today's Front Pages | Newspaper Headlines
- Let us look at the front page of today’s New York Times, the gold standard in news. In the top spot there is a story about Republicans feuding among themselves. There is a photo of soldiers in Iraq. A stock exchange chief must return $100M. There is a concern about some doctors over-selling a nerve testing system. There is a threat from China again... See more
from I Hate the News (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) by Aaron Swartz
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- Pop music isn’t the only thing that has gotten a lot harsher. David Rozado, Ruth Hughes and Jamin Halberstadt analyzed 23 million headlines published between 2000 and 2019 by 47 different news outlets popular in the United States. The headlines, too, grew significantly more negative, with a greater proportion of headlines denoting anger, fear, disg... See more
from Opinion | The Rising Tide of Global Sadness by New York Times
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- Many regard early newspapers as cradles of modern democracy and human rights, and there’s obvious truth to that. But Innis worried that newspapers had a structural bias: They focused culture relentlessly on the present. To make money, newspapers had to train us to come back every day—to become convinced that if we stopped keeping up, stopped checki... See more
from Social media is keeping us stuck in the moment by Clive Thompson
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- The Times has taken their print profits - and reinvested heavily - and wisely in their core offering: journalism.
from The (Not Failing) New York Times — Mine Safety Disclosures
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- The headlines which work best are those which promise the reader a benefit
from Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
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- Some copywriters write tricky headlines – double meanings, puns and other obscurities. This is counter-productive. In the average newspaper your headline has to compete with 350 others. Readers travel fast through this jungle. Your headline should telegraph what you want to say.
from Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
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Instead of informing the public, journalists are forced to game social media algorithms by spinning stories and writing misleading headlines. One reporter at Vox told me they have to write 10 headlines for every post they write. Vox chooses the headline that attracts the most engagement, depending on the platform. Desperate for clicks, reporters t
... See morefrom The Paradox of Abundance - David Perell by David Perell
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