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The relationship between headline and reader

Watch this video to understand how the general public process newspaper headlines.

What influences how we interpret the information we are presented with? Watch this video to understand how we process headlines and why we sometimes interpret these differently.

What is it that you want from news media? Share your thoughts in the discussion below.


Every video on this course has both subtitles and a PDF transcript in the ‘Downloads’ section.

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