Sports and Media Practice Exam

Feature stories are in-depth, narrative pieces that inform readers by providing context, background, and human interest. They often include biographies or profiles to illuminate who the people are and why it matters, and they can be innovative in how they tell the story—creative angles, descriptive scenes, and a layered structure. Breaking news, by contrast, is about delivering timely, up-to-the-minute information; that immediacy is the hallmark of hard news rather than feature writing. Because a feature story aims to explore and illuminate beyond the latest developments, it typically does not focus on breaking events, which is why breaking news is not considered an element of a feature story.