The headline is the text indicating the content or nature of the article below it, typically by providing a form of brief summary of its contents.
The New York Times uses an unusually large headline to announce the Armistice with Germany at the end of World War I.
Headlinese has a long history. This example is the front page of the Los Angeles Herald issue of May 29, 1916.
Copy editing is the process of revising written material ("copy") to improve quality and readability, as well as ensuring that a text is free of errors in grammar, style and accuracy. The Chicago Manual of Style states that manuscript editing encompasses "simple mechanical corrections through sentence-level interventions to substantial remedial work on literary style and clarity, disorganized passages, baggy prose, muddled tables and figures, and the like ". In the context of print publication, copy editing is done before typesetting and again before proofreading. Outside traditional book and journal publishing, the term "copy editing" is used more broadly, and is sometimes referred to as proofreading; the term sometimes encompasses additional tasks.
Example of non-professional copy editing in progress
