News

News Articles

• An article written to inform readers about recent events. The author reports essential information (who/what/where/when/why/how).

News Analysis  

• An article written to inform readers about recent events. The author reports and attempts to deepen understanding of recent events—for example, by providing background information and other kinds of additional context.

Feature Articles

• Compared with news articles, feature articles are often more creative or exploratory and less focused on efficient delivery of essential information.

Other types of news content that are generally categorized as “feature” writing include how-to-do-it articles (for example, how to shop for a new phone) and profiles (for example, an article about a movie actor starring in a recently-released film).

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Opinion

Editorial

• An unsigned opinion piece that represents the views of the news organization’s editorial staff.

Opinion Piece     

• An opinion article by a staff columnist or guest columnist. (If a guest columnist, the writer’s credentials will almost always be identified.)

Review

• An evaluation of a book, movie, album, live performance, etc.

From: News or Opinion by Christine Photinos, licensed under a  Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.