\What is a feature story?

Answer 1

What is a feature story?

A feature takes an in-depth look at what’s going on behind the news.

It gets into the lives of people.
It tries to explain why and how a trend developed.
Unlike news, a feature does not have to be tied to a current event or a breaking story. But it can grow out of something that’s reported in the news.
It may be a profile of a person or a group -- an athlete, a performer, a politician, or a community worker or a team, a choir or a political organization. Or perhaps it’s an in-depth look at a social issue -- like violence in Canadian schools or eating disorders among young women. It could also be a story that gives the reader background on a topic that’s in the news -- like a story that explains how land mines work and the history of their use in war.

A feature story is usually longer than a news story -- but length is not a requirement! What’s more important is the form the story takes.

Think of the feature as the journalistic equivalent of an essay. Follow these guidelines:

start with a premise or theme
present information and opinions that back you point,
bring the reader to a conclusion.
The feature often explores several different points of views, even when the story is about one particular person.

Answer 2

A feature story takes an in depth look at the news.

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Longer articles, such as magazine cover articles and the pieces that lead the inside sections of a newspaper, are known as features. Feature stories differ from straight news in several ways. Foremost is the absence of a straight-news lead, at least most of the time. Instead of offering the essence of a story up front, feature writers typically attempt to lure readers in.

A feature's first paragraphs often relate an intriguing moment or event, as in an "anecdotal lead". From the particulars of a person or episode, its view quickly broadens to generalities about the story's subject.

The section that signals what a feature is about is called the nut graf or billboard. Billboards appear as the third or fourth paragraph from the top, and may be up to two paragraphs long. Unlike a lead, a billboard rarely gives everything away. This reflects the fact that feature writers aim to hold their readers to the end, which requires engendering curiosity and offering a "payoff." Feature paragraphs tend to be longer than those of news stories, with smoother transitions between them. Feature writers use the active-verb construction and concrete explanations of straight news, but often they put more personality in their prose.

Feature stories close with a "kicker." In feature writing, it's a mistake to end by simply petering out... like this.

Answer 3

the story that is most important or the newest

Answer 4

headline news. my opion?

Answer 5

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