Know your newspaper 6.0 – More on features

Feature image credit: The Indian Express

The best way to understand a paper is to pick one and start reading! It is a wonderful leisure as well as educational activity that can make a huge difference to your day. Placed slightly apart from news pieces on crime, law, politics and civic issues are lighter stories that can make you smile and think a lot. These are feature stories. Last week, we had discussed news features, today we will dwell on other sub-types.

This article is a feature on cinema, centred around the National Film Awards.

This article is a review feature on a book, Moong Over MicroChips.

This article is a lifestyle feature on teenagers, written for parents. It can fall under the category of parenting stories. It essentially discusses the behaviour of teenagers as they grow older.

This story is a topical feature about food/cooking in association with a festival, which was around the corner.

When it comes to broadsheets, the kind of stories discussed above are a few popular categories you are bound to spot. If you like these, you would love the plethora of choices you get in a tabloid!

This article is a part of a series about the world of newspapers — read part five here.

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Jagruti Verma
With a little experience of feature writing and subbing on her resume, Jagruti strives to get better with each piece of writing she works on. You can connect with her on Twitter at @JagrutiVerma