How is feature writing different from straight news coverage?

Question

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Answer 1

Straight news provides the who what when where and why and is usually a  much more rigid style of writing. Feature writing focuses on lighter subjects and is not as structured.

Answer 2

"Straight" news, or hard news is the reporting of immediate events as they occur, the staple of daily newspapers and broadcast news. Because each story is only relevant for a short time, writing must be concise and without embellishment or excessive detail.

Feature writing, called "soft news" is the domain of magazine news, the news behind the news. It doesn't have to be soft or lightweight either. It can be an investigative expose of an untruthful or biased hard news story, an in depth story about a news issue, or any other story of interest to readers of a particular magazine or journal.

Both hard news and soft news are capable of being completely factual or heavily influenced by an opinionated point of view.

Think of hard news as a breaking story of an event and a feature story as in depth news about an event.

Answer 3

Straight news coverage is very objective and is written in short, straight-to-the-point sentences.

Feature writing may be subjective and one can write it using complex sentences.