newspaper, paper - a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements; "he read his newspaper at breakfast"

header, heading, head - a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"

drop line, dropline, stagger head, staggered head, stephead, stepped line - a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right

screamer - a sensational newspaper headline

banner, streamer - a newspaper headline that runs across the full page