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They primarily discussed its use in fiction and descriptions of more remote events but their insights apply here as well: when writing a narrative of a past event, the use of the present tense gives the reader a more immediate sense of involvement. Newspaper headlines are narrative hooks to draw the reader into a story, not purely descriptive text.
A third possible reason relates to the first. A large part of news reporting is reported speech. (One source says that 90% of newspaper articles are reported speech.) Backshifting the verbs in every sentence would lead to newspapers written almost entirely in the past tense.
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When to use present perfect tense has always been confusing for me. I know that it carries a sense of continuity from the past, but many times in news articles, I come across sentences with present perfect tense that do not have anything to do with continuity.
Newspaper/news article headlines usually have different syntax rules, for example. No copula. North Korea trip 'successful' Past events written in present. Qantas cancels flight out of frozen Heathrow; Predictions written with infinitive. Britain's 'crossbow cannibal' to die in jail; Very often not in complete sentence. No indefinite/definite ...
Newspaper names not based on this formula (the Foo Newspapertype) do not accept articles: Barron's, never the Barron's, as with Roll Call, USA Today, Stars and Stripes, and so on. But then there's Sporting News , never the Sporting News , because that is their house style.
Articles represent a part that fits into something bigger: Personal articles represent part of all a person's property. Journal articles represent part of the full publication. Legal articles represent part of the complete document. Employment articles represent part of the work arrangement. Grammatical articles represent part of the noun phrase.
Not a word, but there is a phrase that is better than "aggregator" or "blog". You've even used it in your question, and it's not "online newspaper"; it's "news website"! We have newspapers, which are news on paper. We also have news websites, which are news on a website. The equivalence seems sensible to me.
The following extract helps understand the difference between a research article and a research paper: . Research paper and research articles are pieces of writing that require critical analysis, inquiry, insight, and demonstration of some special skills from students and scientists.
I upvoted it, but: "Regarding articles, you may drop them as soon as the meaning remains clear." - The current examples don't reflect the fact that it's quite common to see a title that drops one article, but preserves the other one. E.g., the definite article in the very beginning of the title is omitted, but the definite article in the middle of the same title is preserved.