Jambee N. Sisa October 15, 2020
BSED – 4 – Eng Campus Journalism
HEADLINE:
Phoenix Volleyball Team as Bronze Medalist
STRUCTURES OF HEADLINES
1. Flush Left – Both lines are flushed to the left margin. This is also true with a one-line hadline.
This has no exact count for the units in each line.
2. 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.
3. Inverted Pyramid – Each of the three or four lines in this head is successively shorter than the
line above it.
4. Hanging Indention – The first line is flushed left. This is followed by two indented parallel
lines.
5. 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.
6. Boxed Headline – For emphasis or art’s sake, some headlines are boxed:
• Full box – community involvement science camp theme
• Half box – campus paper catalysts for national development
• Quarter box – local students, teachers bleed for a cause today
7. 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.
