Liberty
Notable Headline
A headline in the Mountain Xpress reads: Latest Victim of the Killer Economy. The Old North State Clothing Company is closing after an ambitious expansion in 2007 and a 75%…
Headline
text indicating the nature of the article below it
Education
Teacher assistants and student performance: What does the research say?
View in your browser. Welcome Last week, Republicans on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Education proposed major cuts to teacher assistant positions. According to the NC Department of Public Instruction,…
Energy
Gee, when you put it that way, it really does sound like a friggin’ terrible idea
Headline in the New York Times today: “Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears.” NYT reports: Each year, an ever larger portion of the world’s…
Liberty
Times Are Tough
Headline in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Sisters of Mercy cutting 226 jobs
Liberty
Headline hanky panky
RALEIGH — Every editor knows the importance of a headline. Ideally, you want that hurried reader to be enticed to read the story because of the headline. Failing that, you…
Liberty
Decline of the print press
Steve Hayward has some interesting observations on NYT headline writers on the Ashbrook Center blog No Left Turns here. Steve offered his views on the Reagan presidency at a recent…
Liberty
Old journalism joke comes to life
For decades editors have used this as the best example of a bad headline: “Firemen fight fire.” Those old editors must have died out or been laid off in favor…
Liberty
Ironic Headline of the Day
Does the headline writer at Roll Call double as a comedian?
Liberty
No Kidding
I never liked having editors. Sometimes it seems like they run your story through the grammar checker and follow its recommendations instead of the intentional words of the supposed expert.…
Liberty
Unfortunate wording department
A headline from a January release by the NC Association of County Commissioners: ?Local-option revenues proving popular in ?08.? Uh, really?
Liberty
Headline of the Day
According to this Durham Herald Sun headline on a follow-up story to the cheating incident at Chapel Hill High School, rival students at East Chapel Hill High are a lot…
Liberty
Golly!
Headline from a recent Education Week article: Class-Size Reduction of Limited Value on Achievement Gap, Study Finds North Carolina gets a shout-out in the article. In North Carolina, a pilot…