feature story

noun

a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up ( def 3b ), hard news, news story.
the main or most prominent story in a magazine.

First recorded in 1910–15

A few weeks later, Newsweek published my long feature story about “the best program on TV, period.”

Some fan, I figured, writing to congratulate me on another awesome feature story.

Going straight to the point, she asked to be assigned a feature story on the cult ceremony that night in the monastery.

Now that she actually was embarked upon adventure, she rather regretted she had promised Mr. DeWitt a feature story.

Get hold of a few back numbers, and study the Sunday Intelligencer feature story.

“We want to write a feature story about your machine too,” Penny continued.

The editors usually call it a feature story because it is worth printing in spite of the fact that it has no news value.

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