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Monday, 28 June 2010

What Is Human Interest?


Human Interest is a feature story which that discusses people in an emotional of interactive way which creates interest or sympathy to the reader of the story. Human interest stories sometimes are 'the story behind the story' about a certain event, organization or historical happening such as the story of an individual's life or a profile of someone's known career achievement. Human interest stories are sometimes criticized as 'soft' news, or manipulative programming. However, they do still sell well as by effecting people's emotions and making them want to read the story which means that they will buy the newspaper.

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