Featured
Articles Generally, no name is given after reporter who writes the news paper. On the other hand, usually, a feature article is contributed by a named author. A feature is an article giving background information on certain events or personalities in the news. Now days, feature writing has become a highly specialized subject. A feature is a non news article in a news paper on some prominent subject. Now a day, feature writing has become very popular in the news paper and magazines. A feature may be written by a prominent journalist or by a general author or by some
specialist. Every news paper has some especial correspondents for
subjects like economics, military, politics, politics, science etc. A feature may be written on a military subject by a military correspondent on a medical subject by a medical specialist, or on a political subject by a political correspondent. Similarly, a
foreign affairs specialist may write a feature on some topic of foreign affairs, and art specialist may write a feature on the subjects of art. Sometimes, important persons in a different spares of life like an industrialist, a member of parliament or a politician, may write
features on different subjects. Similarly, some famous sportsman may write articles or features on sports. There is no doubt that the writer of a
Feature has considerably more time at his disposal as compared to a reporter. A feature writer can research more facts, because he has enough time at his disposal;. Features may be planned in advance such a way that they are published at the time of some important event, for example: inauguration of some project or exhibition, republic day or Independence Day anniversary etc. On the other hand, sometimes features may have to be written without much notice. For example: if some event of great importance takes place either in a foreign country or in once own country, then a feature may have to be written quickly. Supposing some earthquake takes place in some foreign country then a feature on the occurrence of earthquakes may be written in which the
subject may be dealt with in details pointing out how the earthquake takes place, the destructions caused by earthquake and the research for methods of predicting earthquakes etc. Similarly, features may be written after the death of an important personality or head of the state, giving his biographical sketch and other achievements. In the same way, when in some foreign country and unknown person cores into power after a military coup d, etat, a feature may be published giving all information regarding that person. In such a type of feature an attempt is made to give information on all the likely questions which may crop up in the minds of the readers. Another type of articles is those of human interest or human value. This is a very popular source of writing articles. Such features can be written on ever green subjects like health, family planning, sex, the equality between man and woman industry, economics, etc. Now days, many news papers and magazines are full of features on freedom of the sex and other sexual practices. Features regarding the private lives of past and present important personalities, film starts etc. are also quite popular. Many articles have been written on the subject of divorce and its consequences. Sometimes, features are written on certain problems which have aroused considerable public interest, for example the juvenile delinquency, deteriorating law and order situation, increase in eve teasing incidents, daylight robberies, gold chain snatching etc. in recent past , many articles were written on crimes, when two young children of New Delhi were kidnapped and murdered by two notorious criminals. From time to time many features are also written on the problem of eve teasing. Recently when a retired police officer wrote feature on the condition of the under trials in the jail, it caused much consternation among the people and many other articles on this subj
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