Getting in Your Fifteen Seconds of Fame in..... in Five??

No I’m not literally referring to the news making you more famous, but the ideal of this title does hold a lot of the same principles of fame. News as a genre, is fast paced and ever-changing so you must be able to quickly gather information for and write your story in a quick amount of time. But the key thing that makes a news story different from a feature story is the punctuality. Oftentimes news stories are brief, containing minimal sentences and taking up small amounts of time on radio or television shows. Seeing as how these stories must be fit into a smaller space, they must contain only contain the most important information. The who, what, when, where, why and how must be given to the audience as quick as possible, and then if there is more time or room for the story, more information can follow. This is different from a feature story because in most cases a feature story wants to have equally pertinent information throughout the story, making the audience want to make it the whole way through the story.