feature story

noun

1. 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.
2. the main or most prominent story in a magazine.

Word History and Origins

Origin of feature story¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

In a feature story on the 2024 campaigns in Northampton County, the Washington Post noted that the county has voted for the winner in almost every election for a century:

From Salon

After she graduated, CBS hired her full-time, and she worked for the correspondent Robert Trout and wrote for the program, “Feature Story.”

From New York Times

Expanding on a 2019 feature story in the New York Times, Blankfeld relies mostly on interviews with Wisnia, now 93 and living in Pennsylvania, although Spitzer was the subject of a book of essays, “Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor,” edited by Jürgen Matthäus, a senior historian at the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times

The following year, Lily put an end to the speculation when she consented to a feature story in The Sunday Times Magazine, which published a few excerpts from Mal’s diaries for the first time.

From Salon

These pioneering techniques might change the grim calculus of organ transplants in a way that no previous advances could, she writes in her feature story this month.

From Scientific American