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What is the difference between news and feature stories?
The major difference between a news story and a feature story is that a news story is time-sensitive. Media outlets want to publish news stories as quickly as possible after an event occurs. Feature stories, however, are not as time-dependent and contain no urgent content.
What is a feature story in a magazine?
A feature story is a piece of longform non-fiction content that covers a single topic in detail. Examples of feature stories include news features, in-depth profiles, human interest stories, science communication, data storytelling, and more.
Do feature articles appear in magazines?
A feature article is the main news-related article in a magazine that highlights a particular person, place, or event in great detail. Typically, these nonfiction articles dive deeper into a story than regular articles.
What type of articles are in magazines?
The types are: Hard News, First Person Article, Opinion Piece, Informational or Service Piece, How-To Article, Personality Profile, and Think Piece.
What qualifies a news story?
To qualify as news, a story has to have prominence, timeliness, oddity, consequence, human interest, conflict. The list goes on, and no one can really agree on how all these factors come together to determine whether a story makes it into a news bulletin or not.
What are the types of news stories?
Newspaper articles
- News Reports – these are found at the front of a newspaper.
- Feature articles – these explore the issues raised by news stories in more depth.
- Editorials, columns and opinion pieces – these are pieces by ‘personality’ writers, often celebrities in other fields.
What is a news feature in journalism?
A news feature is a kind of story that focuses on a hard news topic. It combines a feature writing style with hard news reporting.
What are news stories called?
The term news story (and often just story) is a very common way of referring to news reports, especially narrative ones. The term news story is often used to distinguish an article as fact-based, as opposed to an editorial or opinion piece.
What is the difference between a newspaper article and a magazine article?
The content in newspapers is current news and developments on ongoing issues in the world, with short articles. Magazines, on the other hand, have specific content such as fashion, medicine, and sports, with long articles.
What is the difference between newspaper and magazine?
The most noted difference between newspaper and magazine exists in their content. Newspapers mostly write about current news in the world and their articles are short (generally under 900 words). However, magazines have longer articles on a variety of subjects such as fashion, sports, movies, medicine, etc.
What is another name for feature stories?
Feature stories are often just called features. One common type of feature story is a human-interest story. Much less commonly, the term feature story refers to the main or featured article of a publication.
What is the difference between a feature and a news story?
Feature writers are usually working to longer deadlines than the news writers so they have a bit more time to consider if you are right for their story. A feature is also much longer than a news story, usually around 2,000 words, but can be much more.
What are the features of a story?
Feature stories are meant to inform and entertain the readers. Feature stories can also be said to be the story behind the news story. An example of a feature story is the story of an immigrant winning the lottery.
What are the features of a feature article?
Feature articles are what’s called “long form” and they might be said to include “the rest of the story”: nuance, color, quotes, opinion, POV, etc. What is the difference between a feature article and a feature story?
Why are feature stories more creative in structure?
In writing a feature story, writers let their imaginations to flow around the facts because feature stories are more creative in structure. What are the differences between a news story and a feature?