How to write feature articles
5 min readNov 4, 2021
I’m teaching university students how to write features, so I may as well write about it.
‘In journalism a feature, like a news story, aims to inform, but it may also narrate, describe, explain, persuade, or entertain, and sometimes all five. It may aim to inspire or stimulate the reader to think or provoke to action. It has distinctive characteristics that add something to the facts. Many features… help us to…