Human Interest

A Human interest story focuses on the human issues, such as a story of a childs battle with a life threatening disease and how they overcome it. The story is very emotionally charged and tries to get the audience to interact and become involved with the issue by making it seem they are following the story closely.

Stories such as this one concerning of a local soldier receiving a bravery award in 'The news' and this reflects the idea of human interest perfectly. Also in my previous post looking at locality the story of the pensioner graduating shows Human interest.

Human Interest stories are often considered to be very soft and manipulative, as they are often very emotionally charged.