According to R. Fowler, the media choose the events on the principle of "news value": for example, news is not just a list of current events, but also what they mean for society, what a valuable information it contains (FOWLER, 1991). The article examines the Covid-19 headlines in the Spanish newspapers “El Pais” and “El Mundo” in terms of their functional load. The results of the study show that the dominant function of Spanish headlines is informative. Communicative tactics of warning, intimidation and attention attraction are verbalized in the headlines of the Spanish press through the lexical means of the language, in particular the use of precedent names, texts, and quotations. The theoretical provisions of the research are accompanied by relevant examples and linguistic commentary of the authors. The research material and theoretical conclusions are also of an applied nature and can be used for the Spanish language courses (KOLABINOVA, PALUTINA, 2014).