Here’s one on how the same article can have different headlines in different papers.

Q: For your Friday article, how come the copy editors from one paper to another had such totally different headers? In the Daily News, the title was “Sanchez still in lead among Trojans QBs,” whereas in the Long Beach Press-Telegram, it was “Mustain finds comfort zone.”

The Press-Telegram also included an extra paragraph about the QBs throwing interceptions that was omitted by the Daily News.

So these two headers are completely and give an entirely different tone to your article to the reader, even though they are the same piece. One is favorable to Sanchez, while the other is favorable to Mustain.

What’s with the discrepancy?

A: This is a good question. Atlhough I work for the Daily News, my articles go out to several papers in our chain. They then write headlines on the stories and can choose to trim or edit stories as they wish. Just as our paper might trim a story. It’s a practice that occurs at every paper. But if you wonder about it again, feel free to ask in another Open Forum.