News is plot, event, what happened last night or this afternoon or is in process right now. News breaks fast, somebody writes it up, the gun is barely fired before the world is clued in. Story is a wider map and involves any number of whys, relating to personal history, family background, the times, the place, and cultural background. Story makes a stab at explaining how such a wonderful or terrible thing could have happened. News enjoys a brief shelf life, turns stale fast, grows a quick crust. Story addresses complicated possibilities and reasons, therefore lasts longer, maybe forever.
Beverly Lowry, in Writing Nonfiction, Carolyn Forche and Philip Gerard, editors, 2001
Beverly Lowry, in Writing Nonfiction, Carolyn Forche and Philip Gerard, editors, 2001
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