Newspaper headlines, types of headlines

Abstract

A Newspaper headline is the title of a news article that shows the gist, essence of article or story. The main grammatical features of newspaper headlines are the use of series of nouns, ellipsis, the present simple as a tense. The main purpose of newspaper headline is to attract attention of the reader to a news article. Newspaper headlines sum up  news articles and news stories and help to classify and differentiate them. There are different types of newspaper headlines such as banner headline, cross-line headline, kicker headline, flushed headline, tripod headline, side-saddle headline, standing headline, jump headline and so on.