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How are ‘Hard News’ and ‘Soft News’ different ?

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MH SET 2023 Paper 2 Computer Science and Applications Question Paper (26-Mar-2023)
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Hard news is about serious topics and recent events and soft news is about human interest stories

Hard news covers serious, timely events such as politics, crime, economy, disasters and public affairs, which must be reported quickly because they lose value with time.

Soft news covers human interest material such as lifestyle, people, culture and entertainment features, which is less time bound and is often written in a feature style.

The difference lies in subject matter and timeliness, not in length or grammatical complexity, and hard news is not defined by convoluted topics.

Hence, Hard news is about serious topics and recent events and soft news is about human interest stories.

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