Two of the major pieces of writing that journalists can scribe for their respected outlets are news stories and feature articles.
News stories are the most common form of writing for newspapers, websites, etc. These stories usually cover a certain event that has just happened that the outlet feels its readers need to know about. The story usually starts with a lead that answers the main questions of who, what, where, when, why, and how, and then goes into more depth later on with interviews and detailed information.
Feature articles are usually done as a chronicle of one individual person, place, or thing focused on providing the reader with more information about the topic than they already know. Features are also usually written in soft style that focuses more on creative writing than the straight facts and information that encompasses a news story.
Features are a good way to rate the performance of a writer when taken out of their comfort zone. Any journalist can bang out a well written news story, because they are given most of the information and just need to put it in written form, whereas a feature allows more to be seen of how creative the journalist is in their method of getting the most people to hear what they have to say.
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