Headlines, headlines, headlines

In class today, we were grouped into editing teams and given the task of editing and creating online headlines for top news stories of our choice.  It was interesting to me how quickly we livened up and started editing with humor.

Something that came in the midst of our good time was how far we could push the line of professionalism with our creative headlines.  We had to definitely make some tough decisions with some very entertaining headlines, but we questioned how much fun we could really have, deciding that many of the word choices we made were probably only appropriate for something like The Booze News.

With more serious topics like Wall Street's corner starting with a decline, we decided against the more ridiculous headlines like "Wall Street:  Dropping like it's hot".  It's interesting to think about how to get a reader's attention while taking so many things into account.  My team definitely could have spent even more time coming up with more and more creative headlines.

This was definitely one of the more energy-boosting and enlightening 8 am class activities.