Profile or Biography


A Profile is much shorter and includes things like the person's likes and dislikes, their personality, their appearance, etc.

A profile is a type of feature story and usually focuses on a person. Profile is a somewhat specific term for a story about a person and, usully, focuses on what's important or interesting about that person now.

Although profiles are usually of people, like a celebrity profile, a journalist can also profile an entity, like a sports team or a company.

Profiles are popular types of magazine stories but you will also see profiles in newspapers and other publications.


Sources:
  1. http://mediacareers.about.com/od/glossary/g/profile.htm
  2. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/author/profile-guide.pdf

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