Feature story

This article is about journalistic feature stories. For other features, see feature (disambiguation).
Mainstream Newspapers that contribute to both hard and soft news. Both informational and for entertainment purposes.

A feature story is a piece of non-fiction writing about news covering a single topic in detail. A feature story is a type of soft news,[1] news primarily focused on entertainment rather than a higher level of professionalism. The main subtypes are the news feature and the human-interest story.

A feature story is distinguished from other types of non-news by the quality of the writing. Stories should be memorable for their reporting, crafting, creativity, and economy of expression.[2] Unlike news reports that mainly focus in factual evidence, feature stories tend to be subjective. Features vary in style, focus, and structure but overall, maintain an entertaining tone rather than strictly informative.

  1. ^ Granato, Len (2002). Newspaper Feature Writing. UNSW Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780868404530.
  2. ^ "Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism Guidelines" (PDF). Pulitzer.com. Retrieved 9 April 2015.