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‘New car diddy kiddy dumb daddy dough’ is headline of the year frontrunner

Posted by Axegrinder on 9 August 2010 at 10:08
Tags: Headline of the month, Uncategorized

A clear frontrunner has emerged in Axegrinder’s headline of the year competition.

It’s The Sun’s awesome headline from February this year about the news that Rap star P. Diddy had blown £220,000 on a luxury car for his teenage son - who did not even have his driving licence.

NEW CAR DIDDY KIDDY DUMB DADDY DOUGH

It has garnered more than 60 of the 100 votes cast so far.

Unfortunately, the utterly crap piece of software Axegrinder used to collate the votes so far - Polldaddy - only lets me collect 100 votes, and we have already exceeded that limit.

So I’m re-opening the voting again with a new poll widget, this time provided by Blogpoll.com

Don’t worry if you have voted already, you’re vote will be added to the new tally.

Here are the headline of the month stories and headlines from the last year, scroll to the bottom to cast your vote.

Remember to cast your vote wisely, bearing in mind that the author of the winning headline will receive a weekend at the luxury lodge on the Isle of Jura where George Orwell wrote 1984 - courtesy of our sponsors Jura single malt whisky.

September

Thelondonpaper

Actress Rachael Weisz wins rave reviews for her performance in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse.

WEISZ AFTER THE EVENT

October

Metro

A farmer has been given £500,000 to clean up the country air turning pig muck into electricity.

AND THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO SPARK IT

November

The Sun

BNP activists round on BNP leader Nick Griffin after he puts in a lacklustre apperance on Question Time

DOWNFALL

December

Wembley and Kingsbury Times.

A shop owner in Kingsbury has been fined for selling fake Durex condoms.

JOHNNY ROTTEN.

January

The New Scientist

A new anklet device used in America can alert the authorities if alcohol-related offenders have breached bail conditions banning them from drinking.

THE ELECTRONIC FINK THAT WILL SQUEAL IF YOU DRINK

February

The Sun

Rap star P. Diddy has blown £220,000 on a luxury car for his teenage son - who does not even have his driving licence.

NEW CAR DIDDY KIDDY DUMB DADDY DOUGH

March

First Great Western Trains passenger magazine

Veteran tennis players to battle it out at a Masters Tennis competition

OLD BOYS’ NET WORK

April

Daily Mirror

Council chiefs and police have cut down 6,000 trees at beauty spot in order to stop couples having sex in the woods.

COPSE AND DOGGERS

May

The Coventry Telegraph

A thief conned a pensioner out of his savings before taking him out for a pub lunch.

SCUM DINE WITH ME

June

Channel 4 News

The UK political situation is finely balanced on 7 May after the general election delivers a hung parliament.

HUNG DRAWN AND COURTED

July

Daily Star

TV favourite Declan Donnelly, of Ant and Dec fame, apparently has a hair-raising talent for growing back his thinning head of hair.

IT’S ALL STRANDS ON DECK

August

Daily Star

Jeremy Clarkson was warned he could be physically attacked after he claimed on Top Gear that Muslim women wear kinky underwear under their burkas.

TOP FEAR

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Vote now to help Axegrinder pick Press Gazette’s Headline of the Year

Posted by Axegrinder on 6 August 2010 at 06:28
Tags: Headline of the month, Uncategorized

UPDATE:

NEW CAR DIDDY KIDDY DUMB DADDY DOUGH, is in the lead - but the bit of polling software has fallen over. Go to this new blog post to cast your vote.

It’s been a year since Press Gazette revived its Headline of the Month competition, thanks to some generous sponsorship from the nice people at Jura single malt whisky.

Now its time to pick our Headline of the Year winner.

Why? You may well ask. Because the skilful sub who wrote our winning headline will be sent away for courtesy of Jura for a weekend’s break on the Isle of Jura where George Orwell wrote 1984.

The luxury lodge costs a small fortune to rent normally so this is a prize that is really worth winning.

There’s also a fantastic prize for the person who nominated the winning headline.

Cast you votes now.

Here are the winners again, you can vote using the poll at the bottom of this post:

September

Thelondonpaper

Actress Rachael Weisz wins rave reviews for her performance in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse.

WEISZ AFTER THE EVENT

October

Metro

A farmer has been given £500,000 to clean up the country air turning pig muck into electricity.

AND THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO SPARK IT

November

The Sun

BNP activists round on BNP leader Nick Griffin after he puts in a lacklustre apperance on Question Time

DOWNFALL

December

Wembley and Kingsbury Times.

A shop owner in Kingsbury has been fined for selling fake Durex condoms.

JOHNNY ROTTEN.

January

The New Scientist

A new anklet device used in America can alert the authorities if alcohol-related offenders have breached bail conditions banning them from drinking.

THE ELECTRONIC FINK THAT WILL SQUEAL IF YOU DRINK

February

The Sun

Rap star P. Diddy has blown £220,000 on a luxury car for his teenage son - who does not even have his driving licence.

NEW CAR DIDDY KIDDY DUMB DADDY DOUGH

March

First Great Western Trains passenger magazine

Veteran tennis players to battle it out at a Masters Tennis competition

OLD BOYS’ NET WORK

April

Daily Mirror

Council chiefs and police have cut down 6,000 trees at beauty spot in order to stop couples having sex in the woods.

COPSE AND DOGGERS

May

The Coventry Telegraph

A thief conned a pensioner out of his savings before taking him out for a pub lunch.

SCUM DINE WITH ME

June

Channel 4 News

The UK political situation is finely balanced on 7 May after the general election delivers a hung parliament.

HUNG DRAWN AND COURTED

July

Daily Star

TV favourite Declan Donnelly, of Ant and Dec fame, apparently has a hair-raising talent for growing back his thinning head of hair.

IT’S ALL STRANDS ON DECK

August

Daily Star

Jeremy Clarkson was warned he could be physically attacked after he claimed on Top Gear that Muslim women wear kinky underwear under their burkas.

TOP FEAR

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Daily Star night man claims headline of the month whisky

Posted by Axegrinder on 12 July 2010 at 15:40
Tags: Headline of the month

Here are the headline of the month finalists, as appearing in the July edition of Press Gazette:

Story: England scrape through to a 1-1 draw with the USA after a goal-keeping error from Rob Green gifts a goal to the Americans.

Headline (honours shared between the News of the World and the Sunday Mirror): HAND OF CLOD

Story: A missing letter from the French philosopher Rene Descartes is discovered after a scholar finds a reference to it on the internet.

Headline (The Guardian): Descartes letter exists, therefore it is found by web surfer

Story: US general Stanley McChrystal is sacked by president Barack Obama after criticising him in a magazine article.

Headline (The Sun): MAC THE KNIFED

But as always there can only be one winner and, not for the first time, a bottle of Jura single malt whisky will be finding its way down to Bristol to sharp-eyed headline spotter Francis Harvey.

Story (Daily Star): TV favourite Declan Donnelly, of Ant and Dec fame, apparently has a hair-raising talent for growing back his thinning head of hair.

Headline: IT’S ALL STRANDS ON DECK

Well done to Daily Star night editor Nick Bailey who came up with it and who also receives a bottle of Jura single malt.

The deadline for headline of the month entries for the September edition of Press Gazette is 23 August. Please email them to dominicp@pressgazette.co.uk

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Headline of the month goes to…a broadcaster!

Posted by Axegrinder on 22 June 2010 at 15:05
Tags: Headline of the month

Here are the latest headline of the month finalists:

Story: Choristers from Magdalen College School gather at the top of the college tower to sing in the beginning of spring including female singers for the first time.

Headline (The Oxford Mail): Girl singers are May-king history

Story: The team that made Ali G a star is reunited after ITV poaches Channel 4’s Kevin Lygo to run its production arm.

Headline(The Times): It is because I is back? Ali G team reunited at ITV

Story: The Duchess of York accepts £27,000 from an undercover News of the World journalist posing as a rich businessman apparently in exchange for securing access to Prince Andrew, and hints that she could do even more for £500,000.

Headline (The Sun):

Oh the greedy old Duchess of York,

She had 27 grand,

She tried to make Them pay half a Mill,

Now she’s leaving Eng-er-land

But there can only be one winner and this month the bottle of Jura single malt whisky goes, perhaps surprisingly, to a broadcaster for the first time.

Channel 4 News is the winner for an on-screen headline which very neatly summed up the political situation on 7 May.

HUNG DRAWN AND COURTED

A bottle of the good stuff is its way to ITN HQ at Gray’s Inn Road.

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Never mind the production gremlins: Here are some headlines we can be proud of

Posted by Axegrinder on 14 June 2010 at 16:03
Tags: Headline of the month

Amid all the production gremlins which appear to be taking over our nation’s editorial production systems, the need to celebrate great headline writing by human beings, rather than computers, is more urgent then ever.

Here are the latest finalists for Press Gazette’s Headline of the Month:

The Bath Chronicle

Staff at a Bath car service centre plan to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday by writing famous quotes from the Bard’s work on the windscreen’s of cars that come in for work.

Headline:

WHEREFORE ART THOU…MONDEO?

The Daily Mirror

A survey has revealed that women would much rather date a DIY expert than a keen gardener or mechanic.

Headline:

SHELF ESTEEM

But the winner is:

The Coventry Telegraph

A thief conned a pensioner out of his savings before taking him out for a pub lunch.

Headline:

SCUM DINE WITH ME

Thanks to Matt Smith for sending in the nomination and Rob Madill for writing the headline. Bottles of Jura single malt whisky are on their way to both of you.

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Daily Mirror in headline of the month triumph

Posted by Axegrinder on 29 April 2010 at 14:10
Tags: Headline of the month

A little later than usual (sorry) here are the latest headline of the month finalists:

Story: The boss of a car engine firm has been forced to take a backroom role after customers deserted him when he turned into a woman.

Headline (from The Sun): MECHANIC LOSES NUTS..AND CUSTOMERS BOLT

Story: Education secretary Ed Balls wades into the row over the secrecy surround killer Jon Venables’ return to prison.

Headline (from the Western Morning News): KILLERS OF BULGER ‘NOT INTRINSICALLY EVIL’ – BALLS

Story: Numbers of sewin (sea trout) have been plummeting and no one knows why. Some say it is climate change, but others say the resurgent otter population is to blame.

Headline: (from the Western Mail): Are otters the rotters that have stitched up the vanishing sewin?

But this month the bottle of Jura single malt whisky will be dispatched to Canary Wharf for the first time as the subbing team at the Daily Mirror takes the headline of the month prize.

Story: Council chiefs and police have cut down 6,000 trees at beauty spot in order to stop couples having sex in the woods.

Headline: COPSE AND DOGGERS

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Headline of the month goes to First Great Western Trains passenger magazine

Posted by Axegrinder on 24 March 2010 at 11:28
Tags: Headline of the month

Extra marks this month go to blogger Jon Slattery who commended The Sun for coming up with an original take on the commander Ali Dizaei jailing story, when everyone else used the “criminal in uniform” quote.

He told Axegrinder: “If it doesn’t win someone should be arrested.”

Nice try, but not bottle of Jura single malt for you this month.

Here are my finalists:

Story: UK job centres mark their 100th anniversary

Headline (from the Daily Mirror): Jobcentury

Story: The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has finally shot down a moving missile with an airborne laser – but military experts say the system is not good enough for combat.

Headline (from the New Scientist)

‘Star Wars’ is a mere phantom menace to missiles

Story: Corrupt police officer Ali Dizaei is jailed after being branded a “criminal in uniform”.

Headline (from The Sun):
Dizaei Rascal

But there can only be one winner, and this month it goes to the subbing team on a customer magazine for the first time.

Story: Veteran tennis players to battle it out at a Masters Tennis competition:
Headline: (from First Great Western Trains passenger magazine)

Old boys’ net work

A bottle of whisky goes to spotter Francis Harvey and the subbing team on the First Great Western Trains magazine.

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Headline of the month winners from the February edition of Press Gazette

Posted by Axegrinder on 23 February 2010 at 14:05
Tags: Headline of the month

Is it me or did the headline writers come back to their desks with a spring in their step this year?

There was certainly no shortage of contenders for Axegrinder’s monthly bottle of whisky – supplied courtesy of Jura single malt.

Here’s the shortlisted finalists:

STORY: Britain slides towards disaster as local authorities run out of grit.

HEADLINE (The Sun)

NO GRIT SHERLOCK

STORY: Pulp fiction star Uma Thurman has landed the role of snake-haired Medusa in a new movie.

HEADLINE: (The Daily Mirror)
UMA’S ADDER NEW SCARE-DO

STORY: Tight-rope walkers in South Korea have walked across the river Han as apart of an annual festival.

HEADLINE: (The Washington Post)
SKYWALKERS IN KOREA CROSS HAN SOLO

STORY: John Scampion re-appointed to the Pensions Regulator

HEADLINE: (Pensions Week)

Scampion chips in at Pensions Regulator.

STORY: The BBC may stop using the weather forecasting services of the Met Office

HEADLINE: (The Sunday Times)

BBC forecast for the Met Office changeable

But as ever there can only be one winner, and the Jura whisky this month goes to the subs’ desk on The Sun for a cryptic headline which sums up the story perfectly, if you think about it!

STORY: Rap star P. DIDDY has blown £220,000 on a luxury car for his teenage son - who does not even have his driving licence.

HEADLINE:

New car Diddy kiddy dumb daddy dough

A bottle of Jura has found its way to Wapping and to spotter John Philips

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New Scientist subs’ Headline of the Month triumph

Posted by Axegrinder on 12 January 2010 at 09:55
Tags: Headline of the month

As headline writers’ thoughts turned towards Christmas many of the nominations for the December Headline of the Month competition had a festive theme. Here are Axegrinder’s finalists:

STORY:

School pupils gave their nativity play a modern twist by adopting the role of radio DJs providing up-to-the minute coverage of developments in Bethlehem.

HEADLINE: (The Hartepool Mail)

MARY AND JOSEPH ‘INN DA HOUSE’

STORY:

Tiger Woods was found unconscious after hitting a fire hydrant in his car and apparently being involved in a fracas with his wife.

HEADLINE (The Times)

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN HYDRANT

STORY:

A nativity scene made entirely out of vegetables by farm workers in Tulleys Farm West Sussex has been labelled offensive to Christians.

HEADLINE (Metro)
THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL

But there could be  only one winner…

STORY:

A new anklet device used in America can alert the authorities if alcohol-related offenders have breached bail conditions banning them from drinking.

HEADLINE (In the New Scientist)
THE ELECTRONIC FINK THAT WILL SQUEAL IF YOU DRINK

Thanks to Rory Crew, a student journalist at No Sweat journalism training in London, for nominating the winning headline. A bottle of Jura single malt whisky is on its way to him and to the subs desk at the New Scientist.

The deadline for nominations for Headline of the Month nominations to appear in the February edition is Friday 22 January. Please email them to pged@Pressgazette.co.uk

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Headline of the month victory for Wembley and Kingsbury Times

Posted by Axegrinder on 8 December 2009 at 10:26
Tags: Headline of the month, Headlline of the month

This month’s headline of the month postbag included an eclectic bunch of offerings. Here are Axegrinder’s favourites:

The Times

Story: Andrew Billen’s review of a warts-and-all BBC biopic of the Enid Blyton starring Helena Bonham-Carter.

Headline: BLIGHT ON ENID

Venue (Bristol what’s on guide)
Story: Kate Macleod tries out the latest health craze to his Bristol – Bikram Yoga.

Headline: BEND IT LIKE BIKRAM

The Times

Story: Matt Rudd tries out an iPhone app that tells you the value of a house by pointing your phone at it.

Headlines: PRICE ON APPLICATION

But this month’s winner is from the Archant-owned Wembley and Kingsbury Times.

Story: A shop owner in Kingsbury has been fined for selling fake Durex condoms.

Headline: JOHNNY ROTTEN.

Thanks to sub editor and reporter Lorraine King for nominating this one and for sports editor Ben Pearce for coming up with the headline.

A bottle of Jura Single malt whisky is its way to you both: Happy Christmas!

The deadline for entries for the January edition is fast approaching, we need them in please by next Wednesday.

Email nominations to pged@pressgazette.co.uk.

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