What do you mean you can't find a feature?

I didn't get to see too much of this one as I was behind a door for the first few minutes of the presentation. I was also pretty miffed that Tom Pierce's sessions all seemed to be SRO when they covered an array of topics I think most print journalists attending the conference would have been interested in. They certainly should have given him a bigger room to work with.

From what I could gather, Pierce talked about finding good feature story topics all over campus by looking deeply into what kind of faculty members are on staff as they are usually people who have already gone a lot of places and done a lot of interesting things. He also said international students should necessarily be considered as topics.

He started the session by listing the four types of feature stories: those that are interesting, those that are important, those that are neither and those that are both and said we would be focused primarily on the last category.

Jim Mustian