Journalism: #Lead-Writing #Feature-Writing

With the advent of information, journalism like concept came into being as a means to disseminate information; through newspapers, TV channels/any of the mediums. As it progressed with the time, it encountered advantages as well as disadvantages. The advantages receded to history, while the advantages took the form of lesson from history and treaded forward, unbounded. As a result we have now many varieties in journalism, concerning two: #lead writing and #feature writing. Lead writing has subcategories also: hard lead and soft lead, which we're going to discuss in detail with some examples.

Definition of Lead writing with reference to two other subtypes

Tap on the above image, to see a sample of feature writing.

Sample-2: feature writing






This sample highlights very famous quoting: "There is a woman behind every successful man". And how the story is unfolding(read the story by clicking on the given link) where it is written: 'wife has pushed her husband into water, while luckily he comes out of water, say 'destined to'.

     Definition of feature writing

Feature journalism is associated with creative journalism. Which escapes hard news format allowing the creative writers among us to write feature articles in an inventive and compelling way. Unlike short and to the point articles, feature articles deal with a subject in greater depth and usually at greater length. Where your emotions and feelings get free vent to explore on their own.

Lead Writing
A sample video for lead writing, where a reader is more tempted to know about the news of 'Joe Biden who let's China in schools of America'.

We have seen usually, in newspapers news in fraction where one after another the message compels reader to read further by arising curiosity in him/her.

Lead Writing: The news article gives report of an entire incident in sharp short summary that asks the aspects of the news through WH questions; who? what?why?when?how? etc and makes readers curious to read the news.

 Hard lead: Gives comprehensive outlook of the event in elaborative                                                                              style.

 

Examples

Soft lead: Provides a short summary.

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Conclusion

It seems ultimately that with progression in time and space many earthly things have changed and so the essential element like newspaper that depicts the happenings in and around the world. Some are conveyed in direct manner some indirectly, but for each manner a medium is required, thus a variety of methods are invented.

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