PJS Articles from 1/30

[tornado]

Hey if you do have experience as a journalist, then let's try a contest where we each predict the headline of the tomorrow's story on BU in Sunday's paper.
You know, like "Roundhouse Regrouping"...except it'll almost surely have to do with "Aces".

[Da Coach]

Is the art of using puns taught in Journalism classes?
I have always wondered why puns are used so much?

[Scouter]

Hey if you do have experience as a journalist, then let's try a contest where we each predict the headline of the tomorrow's story on BU in Sunday's paper.
You know, like "Roundhouse Regrouping"...except it'll almost surely have to do with "Aces".

I'll go with something along the lines of "BU aces another one."

Is the art of using puns taught in Journalism classes?
I have always wondered why puns are used so much?

Writing headlines is actually something we've hardly talked about (if ever) in any of my classes, but I don't think writing them is particularly difficult. Puns, rhymes and alliteration are most often used because they're usually catchy and appealing to the eye. Cheesy, yes, but they're more likely to appeal to someone than "BU beats Evansville, 77-65."

[New Guy]

Is the art of using puns taught in Journalism classes?
I have always wondered why puns are used so much?

My favorite of all time is when Nebraska baseball won the super regional over Rice to make the college world series. The winning pitcher had the nickname shrimp. The headline was "Shrimp fried Rice"