Solution to "Travelling - Means of Transport" - Task 2:

This article is a feature (profile), not a news item.

According to Hicks(1999), feature articles can be divided into 4 main categories:

  1. Profiles

    1. (a)   Of individual people, usually based on interviews, which can be: written in the first person, ghosted or reported ( third person) edited down from a tape into Q&As in reply to set questions.(questionnaire).
    2. If the subject is dead, these become obits( written by acquaintance, admirer, enemy, or cobbled together from clippings).
    3. (b)  Of two or more people, or groups; again these can be from interviews, or clippings-assisted.
    4. Subject can be companies, pop groups, sport teams, orchestras, university departments, clubs, councils…

  3. Product stories: about one product/round-up of many, described, compared, tested.

  4. Background features, which put news into context.

    5. ‘News features’ are hybrids, somewhere between a straightforward news story and a feature.

    ‘Colour’ pieces describe events as they happen; particularly used for funerals and sporting events.

  5. Opinion pieces: