Introduction Feature writing in journalism involves coming up with an article that focuses on a specific person, an aspect of a major event and unlike news, it is normally written in an individual style. In addition, many feature writers normally rely on facts in their stories and work hard to ensure that facts presented in their work have a clear basis (Hennessy, 2006). The origin of feature writing can be traced back to the time when news reporting on contemporary issues that are within the public domain was initiated by many media houses. This indicates that the art of feature writing can be traced back to the time when print media was initiated. The main focus of this essay is to outline what feature writing is all about and how it affects how people are affected by topical or news events that are conveyed to them through news reporting. In specific terms, this essay seeks to explain how feature writers go about their task of conveying how people are affected by topical or news events and how this is different from news reporting. As Ricketson (2004, p2.) puts it, feature writing can is the result of everything in newspaper that is not news. Scope of the essay This essay will discuss the following areas of feature writing  1. Feature writing techniques  2. Interviewing techniques  3. Difference between feature writing and news writing Feature writing techniques When it comes to writing news features that are to appear in any given newspaper, there are several skills that the writer needs to be equipped with. First of all, the writer needs to be well versed with all the basic writing techniques that include a good command of the language being used to write the article and the ability to present ideas in a systematic and accurate manner. The writer also needs to be armed with skills that can go far in ensuring that the story being written for readers is interesting to follow and inclusive of strong quotations that will serve to attract and convince the reader to follow every line of the story. The writer needs to be equipped with skills that can help in narrowing down the feature to focus on one specific aspect of a person or event. Mencher (2003) on his part argues that feature writing looks like a movie camera in that at the beginning, it focuses on the small side but gradually becomes wider. Lastly, the writer of any feature needs to have a ability to deeply criticize what is being written about and all these factors are important in ensuring that the writing turns out to be interesting. Interviewing To effectively write a feature for an aspect on an event or a person, an early choice of method of interviewing and prior preparation of questions is quite helps so much when it comes to saving time (Wheeler, 2006). This is because understanding the method that will be applied in interviewing and having questions that will be used in the interview adequately prepares the writer for the interview and eliminates cases whereby questions are formulated during the interview which normally results into time wastage. For example, if a writer is out to formulate a news feature that touches on a recent bill that affects gender balance, a proper and sensitive interview plan coupled with right questio