captions

Make sure every picture tells a story

How to write compelling captions

Too often, editors crank out captions (aka cutlines) in the 15 minutes before happy hour on a Friday night.

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Made you look

Captions get 16% more readership than text

Too often, editors crank out captions (aka cutlines) in the 15 minutes before happy hour on a Friday night.… Read the full article

Get the picture

Communicate with captions

“Doctored photographs are the least of our worries. If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it.

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Quotes on captions

What writers and others say

“No task involved in producing a newspaper has a greater disparity between its importance to the reader and its attention from most newsrooms than writing cutlines.

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