News headlines

by Harold Evans

Everybody reads newspaper headlines. The skill of writing good ones is vital for the journalistic deskman. Harold Evans demonstrates that a journalist needs more than just a knack, however; that he must employ all the arts of compression and allusion to make immediate sense, to attract the reader, and to tell the news.

150 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1974

About the author

Harold Evans is an English-born journalist and writer who was editor of the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. A graduate of Durham University, he has written a number of bestselling histories. He followed the late Alistair Cooke in commentaries on America for the BBC. An American citizen since 1993, he has held positions as editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly Press, founding editor of the prize-winning Conde Nast Traveler; editorial director of the Atlantic and US News and the New York Daily News; and president and publisher of Random House. He holds the British Press Awards' Gold Award for Lifetime Achievement of Journalists. In 2001 British journalists voted him the all-time greatest British newspaper editor, and in 2004 he was knighted. Since 2011, he has been editor-at-large for Reuters.