Special Features Section Overview
The Special Features Section of The Malone Panther is for work that deserves a larger frame than a routine news article. Feature coverage should give readers depth, narrative, human context, careful explanation, and a memorable structure. It may slow down a fast story, connect many smaller pieces into a series, or give fuller attention to a person, place, institution, idea, or public question.
This section includes longform reporting, interviews, profiles, photo essays, multimedia features, themed series, anniversary packages, issue guides, editor’s collections, narrative explainers, and cross-section projects. Articles may combine reporting, history, analysis, images, timelines, source notes, and related links.
Special Features Columns
Top Articles
⭐ The Longform Desk
A home for deeply reported narrative articles, major explainers, and stories that need space for context and evidence. Read More →
⭐ Profiles in Public Life
Interview and profile coverage highlighting students, scholars, artists, organizers, leaders, and community builders. Read More →
⭐ Special Editorial Packages
A feature area for grouped projects, themed series, issue guides, anniversaries, and multimedia collections. Read More →
Profiles and Interviews
Conversations and biographical features about students, faculty, artists, leaders, researchers, community members, alumni, and public figures.
Profiles and Interviews →Series and Packages
Multi-part editorial series, themed collections, issue packages, seasonal projects, and coverage hubs that gather related stories.
Series and Packages →Photo and Multimedia
Photo essays, visual stories, audio projects, video features, infographics, timelines, maps, and mixed-media storytelling.
Photo and Multimedia →Explainers and Guides
In-depth background guides, reader orientations, glossary-style features, how-it-works pieces, and issue primers.
Explainers and Guides →Essays and Reflections
Reflective essays, narrative columns, first-person pieces, cultural meditations, campus reflections, and interpretive features.
Essays and Reflections →Special Projects Archive
An organized archive of completed feature packages, longform series, multimedia projects, interviews, and editorial collections.
Special Projects Archive →Featured Special Features
Featured special features articles highlight major explanations, profiles, public-interest stories, resource guides, reader pathways, and section-defining work selected for the front of the Special Features Section.
Top Special Features Articles
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The Longform Desk
A home for deeply reported narrative articles, major explainers, and stories that need space for context and evidence.
Read More → -
Profiles in Public Life
Interview and profile coverage highlighting students, scholars, artists, organizers, leaders, and community builders.
Read More → -
Special Editorial Packages
A feature area for grouped projects, themed series, issue guides, anniversaries, and multimedia collections.
Read More →
Special Features Coverage Standards
Special features should be well-structured, carefully edited, and clear about what kind of work they are: reporting, interview, essay, guide, multimedia project, or editorial package. Features may be creative in form, but they should not blur facts, sources, quotation, interpretation, and opinion.
The Special Features Section exists to give important stories room to breathe. Its purpose is to combine readability, depth, evidence, human context, and editorial care.