Cardinal Richelieu Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Which is more than enough punted to f**k things right up when they're putting together 32-40 pages of a paper, two editions, five days a week. The reporters spent days last week being trained how to write headlines. Not convinced it's been a success so far! How difficult can it be to write a headline? All you have to do is make sure you don't exceed your character cou 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Which is more than enough punted to f**k things right up when they're putting together 32-40 pages of a paper, two editions, five days a week. The reporters spent days last week being trained how to write headlines. Not convinced it's been a success so far! The Courier reporters have undergone the same training but the subs still have the final say on what goes in. I can't speak for the Tele but I'd have thought it was the same. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Seething http://www.ayradvertiser.com/news/ayr/articles/2015/05/11/531757-train-passenger-fury-at-scotrail-mistake-/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 (edited) Seething http://www.ayradvertiser.com/news/ayr/articles/2015/05/11/531757-train-passenger-fury-at-scotrail-mistake-/ Single Alan doesn't need to bother with the match.com profile now. Form an orderly queue ladies (ETA, or gents too of course). Edited May 13, 2015 by Shandon Par 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Is that Ayr station? If so, did he go back to the place he is boycotting just to get his picture taken? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Is that Ayr station? If so, did he go back to the place he is boycotting just to get his picture taken? I think it is? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Seething http://www.ayradvertiser.com/news/ayr/articles/2015/05/11/531757-train-passenger-fury-at-scotrail-mistake-/ He looks like the sort of dick that deserves stuff like that to happen to them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 How difficult can it be to write a headline? All you have to do is make sure you don't exceed your character cou There's writing a headline, then there's writing a good headline. Good headline writers are like gold dust and tend to end up at places like The Sun who could get by printing 20 pages of bang average stories but all with great headlines that will catch your eye/stick in your mind. I once had a story published in the Sun about a couple caught having oral sex on a bus. The man was convicted but the woman, for some reason, was found not guilty. The Sun's headline was just brilliant-a massive full page with all caps at the top: "BLEWDUNNIT" Brilliant. Or "SuperCaleyGoBallisticCelticAreAtrocious". Kind of thing you can't teach, you just have that kind of mind or not! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 The Courier reporters have undergone the same training but the subs still have the final say on what goes in. I can't speak for the Tele but I'd have thought it was the same. Not sure, but for my money they're not as good as they were. Not a fan of the new Courier design either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Poofter Priests on the Pulpit! was disgraceful of course, but great alliteration. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Seething http://www.ayradvertiser.com/news/ayr/articles/2015/05/11/531757-train-passenger-fury-at-scotrail-mistake-/ Bloody hell, he looks absolutely seething I sent it to this website - well worth a look: http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/ There's writing a headline, then there's writing a good headline. Good headline writers are like gold dust and tend to end up at places like The Sun who could get by printing 20 pages of bang average stories but all with great headlines that will catch your eye/stick in your mind. I once had a story published in the Sun about a couple caught having oral sex on a bus. The man was convicted but the woman, for some reason, was found not guilty. The Sun's headline was just brilliant-a massive full page with all caps at the top: "BLEWDUNNIT" Brilliant. Or "SuperCaleyGoBallisticCelticAreAtrocious". Kind of thing you can't teach, you just have that kind of mind or not! The problem now is we're being told how to write web headlines and it's totally different. 15-20 words so we can cram as much info in to get it picked up by search engines etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Dominik Diamond used to do a radio show where you'd have to send in your headlines to topical news stories. One was about Fife's serial explorer/ money raiser Mark Beaumont cycling round the world. I won a prize for "Cyclist takes extreme measures to prove to fellow Fifers world is not flat". The prize was a second hand book. I did get to speak to the lovely Marissa De Andrade though. Bloody hell, he looks absolutely seething I sent it to this website - well worth a look: http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/ The problem now is we're being told how to write web headlines and it's totally different. 15-20 words so we can cram as much info in to get it picked up by search engines etc. I wondered that about headlines on newspaper websites. Half the story seems to be in them now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Done! http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/rail-ticket-error-anger.html My mate was chuffed a few years back when one of his stories (he wrote it, he's not the subject of it) made it onto the site: http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/toilet-anger.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Fife mature student rips the pish. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/fife-man-collects-degree-40-years-after-starting-studies-1.875342 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Bloody hell, he looks absolutely seething I sent it to this website - well worth a look: http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/ Doesn't look like I'm going to get anything done for the next few hours. 'sake, there's some cretins in there aren't there? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspy Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Women accused of assaulting boys with a Hoover, talk about dyson with death! http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/court-and-crime/articles/2015/05/13/688420-woman-accused-for-assaulting-boys-with-hoover/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Arbroath man attacks own house with a spade. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-the-mearns/arbroath-man-hit-own-house-with-spade-after-locking-himself-out-1.875642 “They shouted over to ask him what he was doing and he said: ‘I’m trying to get in, it’s my hoose and I’ve no got my keys’.” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Women accused of assaulting boys with a Hoover, talk about dyson with death! http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/court-and-crime/articles/2015/05/13/688420-woman-accused-for-assaulting-boys-with-hoover/ That happened in Arbroath few years back, some bird put a Hoover on a boys boaby Got the jail Girl was my age. Seen her a few weeks back in asda. She can attack me with a Hoover anytime she wants tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Arbroath man attacks own house with a spade. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-the-mearns/arbroath-man-hit-own-house-with-spade-after-locking-himself-out-1.875642 I didn't see any mention of an accomplice.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 This could have been an udder disaster - coos on the A92 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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