What makes a news story different than a feature story?

A news story is usually much more of a hard news story where a feature story is much more of a soft news story. In a regular news story a journalist would usually write in the inverted pyramid style of writing. This means that the story would have all the facts from the beginning and these facts would also be the most important facts. The point is to put the most important facts first and end with the least important. Feature stories are usually much longer than a regular news story. In a feature story however the facts are spread throughout the story. A feature story is a special story about a special topic so if a person chooses to read it they are most likely going to read the whole thing so there usually is not such a need to put all the most important facts in the lead alone.