does the same person write the headlines

Reader comment on: The Wall Street Journal on Sears

Submitted by benjamin (United States), May 20, 2010 15:22

As a former newspaperman, how do headlines get generated? There are headline writers? Do reporters have a say in what the headline is?

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The Future of Capitalism replies:

Usually it's an editor not a reporter but working from the article turned in by a reporter.

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