subheading
Your standfirst describes him as a "modern-day folk hero".
A sub wrote the headline and standfirst for the piece, and also cut it to size and rewrote it for style.
In the article "From tabloid editor to kennel worker" (News Review, Aug 28) the standfirst states that Wendy Henry was "the first woman editor of a British national newspaper".
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Newspapers & magazines: headlines & features
advertorial
advice column
advice columnist
agony aunt
agony column
agony uncle
comic strip
cover story
dateline
double-page
double-page spread
leader
obituary
op-ed
opinion piece
personal column
press cutting
problem page
splash
spread
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Broadcasting: programmes & other broadcasts