Headlines create the interest!

I found it interesting that you use present tense always in headlines, but not within the story. By creating a headline in present tense you create interest. People are not as interested in reading news that they think is not recent. When you do use past tense it is to show that something in the past is very important to a current issues.

These are examples pulled from this week's news:

Cancer survivor uses paper cranes to pay it forward

Big Cottonwood Canyon cabin destroyed in fire

To shorten headlines you use a comma, instead of the word and. Since conciseness is very important to headline writing it is great that you don't need to include the word and.

This is an example pulled from this week's news:

2 men tased, jailed in similar, bizarre incidents

Another interesting aspect of writing headlines is using a colon instead of quotation marks to indicate a quote.



I found this mistake by scrolling through by Facebook feed this week:

The quotation marks are unnecessary and actually make the statement more vague.  It is unclear what they mean by "finger."