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Feature comforts
Features can take many forms but the one common thread that defines them as features is that they are not meant as instruments of news.
Sure, they may contain tidbits of information that may be new but
mainly, they are soft stories with lengthier copy, more colour,
anecdotes, quotes, advice and so on.
They can be about serious issues such as war and human suffering and or on uplifting stories of human achievement and progress.
They can take the form of profiles of newsmakers or simply a extended
quote story on someone who has something interesting to say.
Often, features can be found in a particular section of a newspaper or
magazine. The best features are generally about individuals. After all,
journalism is about people. Imagine a profile with live quotes from
Osama Bin Laden.
You might despise him but you’ll definitely read it. How about a
feature on the African swimmer who barely swam the length of the pool
at the Olympics, having never seen a 50-metre pool in his life?
Or the American pastor who left Maryland to take care of an orphanage
in Sri Lanka and then survived the tsunami by taking sheltering in a
flimsy boat full of terrified orphans.
Your own home town could be the subject of thousands of features. To
cover this topic goes beyond the resources of this website, but
I’m sure you all get the picture.
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