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{{quote|"They tug at the heart and fog the mind."|'''Kent Brockman''', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
A '''Human Interest Story''' is a type of news story that focuses on a person, group of people, and/or culture in an emotional manner. The goal is to create an empathy between the audience and the subject matter, often with the intent to garner sympathy and/or awareness in the process.
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== [[Fan
* ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'':
** In ''Drunkard's Walk II'', set in the world of ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'', reporter Lisa Vanette is "exiled" by her editor to human interest stories when her first big story, about a boomer attack, is discovered to be missing information she was trying to hide.
** In the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' installment ''Drunkard's Walk S'', Jitsuha Yoshi is a former war correspondent who has of late been working human interest stories and the occasional "silly season" article about [[Magical Girl]]s -- at least until the Dark Kingdom begins stepping up its operations in Tokyo.
== [[Film]] ==
* In the 1951 film ''[[Ace in the Hole]]'', reporter Chuck Tatum creates a Human Interest Story for himself; when he hears about a man trapped in a collapsed cave, he deliberately prolongs his rescue by manipulating the local authorities, just so he can report on it and restore his career.
* An editorial meeting portrayed in ''[[All the President's Men|All the Presidents Men]]'' mentioned making space for a human interest story.
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* in ''[[PK]]'', Jaggu worked this kind of stories prior to meeting the titular alien. She manages to get out of that niche by twisting the story of the "poor crazy guy looking for God that got shafted by a local Guru" (which is the only way PK's story can be told to outside spectators) into a campaign to denounce shady and shifty religious figures (which, being in India, there is no shortage of them).
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[Monstrous Regiment]]'' William de Worde chases all over Borogravia reporting on the war and his human interest stories {{spoiler|change public opinion about the war and guarantee that Borogravia will have food and supplies through the winter.}}
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* These are at the core of the [[John Grisham]] novel ''[[The Last Juror]]''. It was a story on a black family that boasted five college graduates that made the newspaper profitable, and, by the end of the book, the protagonist had done such a story on every person in town.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' had an episode where Bart ended up as a reporter and anchor for a kids news shows. At the advice of Kent Brockman, he did [[Glurge]] human interest stories to near-exclusion.
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