feature story

noun

a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style.
the main or most prominent story in a magazine.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of feature story¹

First recorded in 1910–15

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Example Sentences

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In a feature story on the 2024 campaigns in Northampton County, the Washington Post noted that the county has voted for the winner in almost every election for a century:

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After she graduated, CBS hired her full-time, and she worked for the correspondent Robert Trout and wrote for the program, “Feature Story.”

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Expanding on a 2019 feature story in the New York Times, Blankfeld relies mostly on interviews with Wisnia, now 93 and living in Pennsylvania, although Spitzer was the subject of a book of essays, “Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor,” edited by Jürgen Matthäus, a senior historian at the U.S.

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The following year, Lily put an end to the speculation when she consented to a feature story in The Sunday Times Magazine, which published a few excerpts from Mal’s diaries for the first time.

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These pioneering techniques might change the grim calculus of organ transplants in a way that no previous advances could, she writes in her feature story this month.

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�� is a feature story?

A feature story is a factual story that is not hard news but is instead a more personal report about a person, event, or aspect of a major event. Feature stories typically appear as articles in newspapers, magazines, and other publications, but they are also frequently featured in other media, such as TV, radio, and podcasts.Feature stories are distinguished from hard news stories, which are straightforward, factual accounts of important happenings or events—just the facts. Feature stories often involve elements of hard news, but they are intended to give readers more descriptions and details.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.Feature stories provide readers with information that they might not need to know but that they (hopefully) want to know. Perhaps the most common examples of feature stories are profiles of notable figures or average people, but there are many kinds.

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