Good and Bad Headlines

Good Headlines 

Can iPhone 6 Plus Users Bend It Like Beckham? 

This headline is good because it instantly captures your attention with humor. Making a reference to a movie, whose title blends in with what the article is going to be about just makes it even more hilarious. Even if the reader didn't know about a movie called "Bend it Like Beckham" they would be able to guess that this article is about how the iPhone 6 can bend just by having the word in the title The movie is popular enough for most people to get the joke, but it doesn't alienate the readers who haven't seen it. Just by making a headline like this, it makes me want to click on the story even more. 


The living hell of a man who orgasms 100 times a day 
Though the headline use "the" and "a", which takes up space I believe this is a good headline. It instantly captures your attention by having how many times this man can have orgasms in the headline, making the reader feel shocked and wanting to how. Also, by saying it is a "living hell" for the man it makes the reader question why. It has great shock-value and adds to a readers curiosity and needing to know about this man's story. 


'Active shooter' incidents on the rise 

This headline is very straightforward and simple. It lets the reader know that it is going to be talking about all of the school shooting, public shootings, etc. that have been happening all over the United States. The headline also let's the reader know that these incidents are increasing, thus stating why this is so important. This headline makes the reader want to learn more. 


Bad Headlines 

Colorado's "war on women" and the U.S. Senate race: the sequel

The headline starts off with an interesting line: Colorado's "war on women" which instantly grabs your attention, however, after saying that they add: "and the U.S. Senate race: the sequel" which leaves the reader confused. It makes the reader wonder if the article is about this war on women or the U.S. Senate race. Are they connected? I thought it was Colorado that was having a war on women? It raises too many questions, and a reader doesn't want to try and figure out what the article is about before they even read it. They move on.

Rewrite: Colorado's Senate candidates' war on women 

Bad air puts Denver near the top of list for exposure to man-made risks 

The headline has too many words added to it, and can be written much shorter and straightforward. All of this information can be included in the article, not the headline, all I would need to do is read the headline and get the information I need without clicking the article. Making the headline useless. 

Rewrite: Denver: the mile-high toxic city