News Headlines

Even someone with no website design experience, I’ve always had an eye for news websites and how they display their content , especially their headlines. So for this blog post I’ll take a look at three common news sites and examine their main headline.

CNN: Without scrolling, their main headline is in the left hand side, almost exactly the middle of the way down the page. The text is in black and bold but not in all caps. What stands out is that there is a gigantic ad that takes up a lot of space about the headline. The ad stands out more than their actual main headline

NBC News: Their main head line is higher up on the page than CNN’s ad. There is an ad that changes above the headline, but it takes up less space than CNN’s headline. The headline text is white over the image of a dam which is what they are talking about. The headline is also not in all caps, but each letter of the headline is capitalized, besides words like ‘to’ and ‘in’

CBS: has a headline that is much more centered compared to the other two headlines. There is also an ad over the headline but it is about the same size as the ad from NBC News. The CBS text is just like CNN’s, its bold and every main word is not capitalized.

After examining the headlines I found that headlines for each news site usually has some variation. What remains the same is the placement of an ad above the headlin