Re: A call for evidence: sentence or title case for headings?

Caroline,

If your preference is for sentence case, then there's good evidence in
the current practice of UK newspaper web sites: The Times, The
Guardian, and The Independent all use sentence case for headlines. So
does the BBC web site, and The Washington Post web site. The New York
Times uses title case, however.

Regards,

David



On 14 March 2010 11:00, Caroline Jarrett
<[email protected]> wrote:
> This discussion about evidence is a very timely one for me.
>
> I'm just having a tussle with an editor about whether to use title case or
> sentence case in headings in an online column - quite a long one, a few
> screens-ful.
>
> The editor asked me: "What's your data?".
>
> I'd like to ask all of you: what is your opinion? And do you have data to
> back that opinion, or arguments why data might be irrelevant to the
> discussion?
>
> Best
>
> Caroline Jarrett
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