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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.
The Christmas tree structure features a series of narrative developments or twists, often used for complex or evolving stories. [ 3 ] Example 1: A feature on a new technological breakthrough would present various aspects (science, impact, challenges) in a sequence of developments, each adding a new layer to the story.
The inverted pyramid is a metaphor used by journalists and other writers to illustrate how information should be prioritised and structured in prose (e.g., a news report). It is a common method for writing news stories and has wide adaptability to other kinds of texts, such as blogs, editorial columns and marketing factsheets. It is a way to ...
News style, journalistic style, or news-writing style is the prose style used for news reporting in media, such as newspapers, radio and television. News writing attempts to answer all the basic questions about any particular event—who, what, when, where, and why (the Five Ws ) and also often how—at the opening of the article .
Students are given a prompt and they are to respond with a news story. Students are given the option of either handwriting the story or using a computer (a portable printer is required). The judging criteria are as follows: (1) Lead consists of the most timely and newsworthy information. (2) Facts are presented in descending order of importance.
60 Minutes, a television program that frequently reports human-interest stories. In journalism, a human-interest story is a feature story that discusses people or pets in an emotional way. [1] It presents people and their problems, concerns, or achievements in a way that brings about interest, sympathy or motivation in the reader or viewer.
1995: Ron Suskind, The Wall Street Journal, "for his stories about inner-city honor students in Washington, D.C., and their determination to survive and prosper." These articles would later become his first book A Hope in the Unseen; 1996: Rick Bragg, The New York Times, "for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America."
The PBS Kids Writers Contest is an annual art and literature competition for students grades kindergarten to 12 in the United States. The competition was relaunched under the name PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest in 2009 as a continuation from its predecessor called Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest [ 1 ] which was started in 1995.