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human interest story en · NOUN
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A soft news story that is intended to evoke emotion, empathy, humour, inspiration, etc., in the audience.
Not more than a dozen persons showed up for his funeral. Among them was an earnest young reporter who hoped for a human-interest story; there were legends that the old man had been something of a gunfighter in the early days.
1949, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 90:
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