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Feature Heads• Look to the nut for the theme.
• That’s the subject of the headline.
• Characterize the theme to match the tone of the story.
• Light head for light story, vice-versa.
• Label heads often work.
• Action heads are sometimes better.
• Creativity counts.
Feature Heads 2• Use decks to show context: scope of
impact, individual impact, efforts to deal.
• Can mix action and label forms in decks.
• Try for some kind of suspense or suspended interest. A rare place for a good adjective.
• Don’t be afraid to use a catch phrase.
• Remember the three forms of label head.
3 label head forms For (affected), (what’s affecting them and
how)
In (somewhere), (whatever’s going on)
(Noun): (Characterization of the noun)
Head 1
Separate but ToxicHouston’s Environmental Magnate School that’s an Environmental Catastrophe
Head 2
Blind SpotsWhat abuse at the Evins Regional Juvenile Center reveals about the troubled Texas juvenile justice system
Head 3
Parental Control Indeed
Head 4
Shades of Abu Ghraib
Head 5
All Politics Is Loca(l)
Head 6
Road Rage
Head 7
Death SpiralWaiting to see where the two new Supreme Court justices stand on capital punishment
Head 8
Fast Starter
Head 9
Commissioner Kinky?
Head 10
Up or Out in the Colonies
Headline 11
Enough Is Enough