News stories and feature stories are different in purpose and direction. A news story is designed to alert the reader of the current news by typically formatting the article in the form of the inverted pyramid of who, what, when, where, why, and how.
A feature story gives the reader something enjoyable, interesting, and sometimes light to read. This format is usually a narrative format with chronological order used for the series of events.
News stories and feature stories can interchange formats – for example, a news story could be in chronological order of events or have a narrative lead.
The main difference in these stories is usually how they end; news stories have an ending that dies out because readers usually stop reading past the top and the feature story usually has the end result the most important that the readers will look for.
Feature stories tell more of a story appearing in forms like essays and columns opposed to news stories being the most direct way of conveying the news. Both types of stories are intriguing to readers – it just depends on how the reporter wants to convey to the readers.
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