Activity 1. THINK IT THROUGH!
Directions: Answer the following questions and write your answers in your Journalism (English) 7 notebook.
1. What is the difference between hard news and a feature story?
2. What makes a good human interest feature story?
3. Do you think human interest stories are powerful? If so, what makes them powerful?
4. What are the things that you need to consider when you write a feature story about a specific person or event?
Subject: Journalism
Directions: Answer the following questions and write your answers in your Journalism (English) 7 notebook.
1. What is the difference between hard news and a feature story?
2. What makes a good human interest feature story?
3. Do you think human interest stories are powerful? If so, what makes them powerful?
4. What are the things that you need to consider when you write a feature story about a specific person or event?
Subject: Journalism
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1.
-Hard News is often written as punchy text giving you all the goodies and facts upfront who, what, where, why, when & how. A feature article or News Feature is where readers would head to find an in-depth analysis of the 'Hard News' story, to read more about the context and background information.
2.
-It is people sharing their unique stories in an emotional and interesting way. The benefit of telling a story like this is so the reader can relate to it in an emotional way. A good human interest story will spark anger, empathy, compassion, sympathy, motivation, laughter, fear and love.
3.
- In journalism, a human-interest story is a feature story that discusses people or pets in an emotional way. It presents people and their problems, concerns, or achievements in a way that brings about interest, sympathy or motivation in the reader or viewer. Human-interest stories are a type of soft news.
4.
- The Headline.
- The Deck.
- Introduction.
- Body.
- Conclusion.