Philip Ogley
1 min readFeb 23, 2023

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I just ran one of the most famous headlines in history "Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg!" through Capitalise My Title and it gained a score of 55. My most recent headline, which I admit was a bit weak got "What Have I Got To Do With Mitochondrial Eve?" got 59.

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A good headline is important of course. But spending hours rejigged headlines is a waste of time. If you can write a story, you should be able to pick a good headline. Trust your instinct, throw away the algorithm. I've worked in magazine journalism in the UK, and honesty I barely had time to write the piece. The headline had to be good as well but I didn't have time to faff around analysing it. True, the editor can help with this, and most editors on Medium never suggest changes to headlines, which is silly.

Anyway, there's probably something in it, but not a lot. Good read anyway, Malky!

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Philip Ogley
Philip Ogley

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