http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/magazine/casey-affleck-should-be-more-famous.html?ref=magazine&_r=0
http://longform.org/stories/zepps-last-stand
http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21590100-after-dreadful-decade-abroad-americans-are-unduly-pessimistic-about-their-place
Feature writers.
•Lynn
Barber – the Observer
•Patrick
Cockburn – the Independent
•Deborah
Orr – the Independent
•John
Pilger
•Barbara
Ellen – the Observer/Guardian
•Miranda
Sawyer – various
•Simon
Barnes – the Times
•Yasmin
Alibhai-Brown
In features you cannot forget the...
WHAT
WHERE
WHEN
WHO
WHY
HOW
When writing features think of news being a pyramid, most important information at the top as the story goes on it get more into details and is longer. Features are usually longer, they are more thought about and researched into, they contain comments, they are a form of entertainment but still have hard facts and allows the writer to write about theories aswell as facts.
•Peg:
how you lure readers in
•Angle:
slant, approach, interpretation
•Quotes:
bring feature to life
•Colour:
detail descriptions
•Tone:
how you say something
•Voice:
words author, expert, friend, gossip
•Packaging:
pics,
graphics, sidebars, case studies, Q&A, audio, video
Different type of features may include, profiles, trends, first person: eye witness, confessional human interest, news backgrounder/ colour, lifestyle, travel, follow-up news feature, leader/ analysis and a review.
"Grab the reader by the throat in the first paragraph, sink your thumbs into the windpipe in the second and hold him against the wall unti the tag line." - Paul O'Neil - American Writer.
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