banner headline 
noun
A large newspaper headline, especially one across the top of the front page.Right, it may be not be Normandy, but when you take a look at the front pages of the various newspapers today, the banner headlines are running day after day, bigger and bigger....
- Yet, there have been front page banner headlines in just about every daily newspaper in the country almost every day since the court decision was handed down.
- Indeed there's little sign of the war on terror here apart from lurid pictures and banner headlines on the front pages of newspapers.