That's how titles of news articles are typically capitalized. The only lowercase words are those that are grammatical connectors.

This is a culture shock for me because when I studied journalism in Australia I was taught to only capitalise the first letter and proper nouns.

Example from ABC News AU: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-14/missing-australian-hi...

> Brisbane woman Julia-Mary Lane found dead in Canadian wilderness in 'unfortunate hiking accident'

It’s part of the title of the article, which is in titlecase. That’s why ‘Novelist,’ ‘is,’ and ‘dead’ are capitalized.

edit: I’m wrong, disregard.

I mean, they capitalized “is” too. Sloppy work, 0/10.

“Is” is a verb, so it should always be capitalized in title case.

Huh! I’ve apparently been getting this wrong for years.

There are 14 competing standards...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case