A news feature is a kind of feature story that focuses on a hard-news topic. News features combine a featurey writing style with hard-news reporting. Here are five tips for producing great news features.
1. Find a Topic That's Doable
News features typically try to shed light on problems in our society, but many people doing news features for the first time try to tackle topics that are just too large. They want to write about crime, or poverty or injustice. But books - indeed, hundreds of books - can and have been written about subjects so broad.
What you need to do is find a narrow, focused topic that can be covered reasonably well in the space of a 1,500-word news feature. Want to write about crime? Focus on one particular neighborhood or even a specific housing complex, and narrow it down to one type of crime.
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This is great information. Many journalists write about things that are just too broad. I understand you want to save the world, but you have to tackle one problem at a time.
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