Copyreading involves correcting errors in articles related to grammar, facts, structure, spelling, and style. It also removes libelous or derogatory statements. When copyreading, one looks at readability, spelling of names and places, accuracy of facts, consistency of style, and missing elements. Headlines are written in bold letters at the start of news articles. Effective headlines are simple, give the main idea in the first line using a who-what structure, and avoid double meanings.
Copyreading involves correcting errors in articles related to grammar, facts, structure, spelling, and style. It also removes libelous or derogatory statements. When copyreading, one looks at readability, spelling of names and places, accuracy of facts, consistency of style, and missing elements. Headlines are written in bold letters at the start of news articles. Effective headlines are simple, give the main idea in the first line using a who-what structure, and avoid double meanings.
Copyreading involves correcting errors in articles related to grammar, facts, structure, spelling, and style. It also removes libelous or derogatory statements. When copyreading, one looks at readability, spelling of names and places, accuracy of facts, consistency of style, and missing elements. Headlines are written in bold letters at the start of news articles. Effective headlines are simple, give the main idea in the first line using a who-what structure, and avoid double meanings.
Copyreading involves correcting errors in articles related to grammar, facts, structure, spelling, and style. It also removes libelous or derogatory statements. When copyreading, one looks at readability, spelling of names and places, accuracy of facts, consistency of style, and missing elements. Headlines are written in bold letters at the start of news articles. Effective headlines are simple, give the main idea in the first line using a who-what structure, and avoid double meanings.
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Copy Reading and Headline Writing
What is copyreading?
Copyreading is correcting articles using appropriate symbols. It involves correcting errors in
grammar, errors in fact, errors in structure, errors in spelling and errors in style.
Style refers to the newspaper’s preferred manner of doing things – what to abbreviate, and how, what to spell out and what to capitalize.
Copyreading also involves eliminating libelous and derogatory statements and opinions in editorials and news stories and those contrary to laws and good taste.
What to look in copyreading?
Overall readability of the article
Correct spelling of names of persons, places and events
Accuracy of facts ( e.g., Martial law – Sept 21,1972 or was it 1973)
Consistency in style ( e.g., U.S or US, Arroyo or Gloria Macapagal Arroyo or GMA
Missing elements ( e.g., punctuation marks, bylines etc.)
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What is a Headline?
An assemblage of words written in bigger, bolder letters than the usual page text at the beginning of the news, also known as the head, but not a title.
Rules in Headline Writing
Write an easy to read headline. The simple declarative subject predicate sentence is easy to read.
Examples: Teachers receive cash gifts
Civilians killed in Davao ambush
Give the main idea in the first line the “who-what” angle
example: Trump to announce slate of Federal nominees
In a head with two or more decks, make the top tell the most significant points of the story and no other.
