{"id":1379,"date":"2010-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2010\/11\/04\/1318\/"},"modified":"2010-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T23:00:00","slug":"1318","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2010\/11\/04\/1318\/","title":{"rendered":"Heds, deks, and ledes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell at O&#8217;Reilly Radar \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2010\/11\/heds-deks-and-ledes.html\">Heds, deks, and ledes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;When a copy editor applies a real or virtual red pencil to a piece of journalistic prose, he or she is likely to use weird spellings: hed for head (headline), dek for deck (subhead), lede for lead (first paragraph). The idea is that these intentional misspellings will help distinguish an editor&#8217;s commentary from a writer&#8217;s prose.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this is a useful convention or just an antiquated habit I really can&#8217;t say. But the principle of heads, decks, and leads matters more than ever, and not just in journalism.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Now I finally understand why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nitf.org\/IPTC\/NITF\/3.2\/documentation\/nitf-documentation.html#hedline\">the NITF standard uses &#8222;hedline&#8220;<\/a> instead of &#8222;headline&#8220;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell at O&#8217;Reilly Radar \u2013 Heds, deks, and ledes: &#8222;When a copy editor applies a real or virtual red pencil to a piece of journalistic prose, he or she is likely to use weird spellings: hed for head (headline), dek for deck (subhead), lede for lead (first paragraph). The idea is that these intentional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}