DOI: 10.36344/ccijhss.2022.v08i07.001

Pages: 91-96

This study examines the correlation of news headlines with multiple intelligences. What is to be tested is how big the correlation between writing headlines and multiple intelligences, especially with the dimensions of language intelligence and intrapersonal intelligence. If there is a relationship between news headlines and the two dimensions of multiple intelligences, multiple intelligences can be a predictor of a person's competence in writing news, especially as a reporter or editor. This issue, so far as following the publication of news headline research in journals over the last five years (2017 – 2021), has never been studied. In fact, research on the correlation of news headline writing with multiple intelligences can explain the mistakes that occur in news headline writing. The results of this study became the basis for the publishing/journalistic study program to create an intelligence instrument as a tool to identify the competence of prospective (young) journalists. With intelligence instruments, media editors can recruit competent journalists more accurately and easily, especially in news writing. This study uses a survey method for students of the Publishing/Journalistic Study Program, Department of Graphic and Publishing Engineering. The questionnaire was prepared using the Multiple Intelligences scale and the choice of various news titles. The results of the relationship between news headlines and multiple intelligences will be analyzed using a statistical method approach: correlation and factor analysis. The results of this study are that there is a relationship between News Title Writing and Multiple Intelligences, the relationship occurs between Active Sentences containing facts or opinions with the dimensions of Multiple Intelligences Music. There is no influence of Language dimension or Intrapersonal dimension on Music Intelligence. Music can be said to influence someone's news writing. To increase the reliability of the measurement of news ...