Historically feature writers occupied a privileged, often protected, position in a newsroom. While news reporters were required to produce copy to a tight deadline, the feature writer had the luxury of time in which to craft a well-researched and argued piece. Today, that is rarely the case. Feature writers are no longer inured from every day newsroom pressures. They’re expected to produce news as well as features, a reality which has contributed to a decline in the quality of longer form journalism. While technology has promoted greater interactivity among writer and audience, or content producer and audience in the case of online features, the focus and scope of features has changed immeasurably.

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还有专题写作的未来吗？

从历史上看，专题作家在新闻编辑室中享有特权，经常受到保护。尽管新闻记者需要在紧迫的期限内制作副本，但这位专题撰稿人有充足的时间来制作经过精心研究和争论的文章。今天，情况已很少。新闻发布者不再需要承受新闻编辑室每天的压力。预计他们会产生新闻和新闻，这导致长篇新闻业质量下降。尽管在在线功能的情况下，技术促进了作者和受众之间或内容制作者与受众之间更大的交互性，但功能的重点和范围却发生了不可估量的变化。