This document discusses the different types of headlines used in journalism, including their purposes and structures. It identifies several headline styles such as flush left, dropline, inverted pyramid, hanging indentation, crossline, boxed, and jump story headlines. Each has a specific format for how the text is aligned and structured within the headline.

2. Functions of headline:
1. To tell in capsule form what the
story is all about.
2. To grade the news as to
importance.
3. To make the page look attractive.

3. Structure of Headlines
Flush Left
Both lines are flushed to the
left margin. This is also true
with a one-line headline. This
has no exact count for the units
in each line.

4. Family planning
seminar held

5. Dropline or Step Form
The first line is flushed left
while the second is indented. It
may consist of two or three, and
sometimes four lines of types of
the same length, somewhat less
than a column in width.

6. Local boy scouts
bleed for a cause

7. Inverted Pyramid
Each of the three or four
lines in this head is
successively shorter than the
line above it.

8. School launches
kalinisan
drive

9. Hanging Indention
The first line is flushed
left. This is followed by two
indented parallel lines.

10. Chief editor
bats for more
development news

11. Crossline or Barline
A one-line headline that runs
across the column. The simplest
form, it is a single across the
allotted space. If it runs
across the page, it is called a
streamer.

12. Local students join CLEAN drive

13. Boxed Headline
For emphasis or art’s sake,
some headlines are boxed:

14. a.Full box
Community involvement
science camp theme

15. b. Half box
Campus paper catalysts for
national development

16. c. Quarter box
Local students, teachers bleed for
a cause today

17. Jump Story Headline
A jump story (a story continued
on another page) has a headline
of its own. This may be the same
as the original headline or it
may just be a word, a phrase, or
a group of words followed by a
series of dots.

18. Local students…
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