> which means that you are drawing on your own experience and the experience of the people immediately around you... This would also explain why there seems to

> which means that you are drawing on your own experience and the experience of the people immediately around you... This would also explain why there seems to be so many more personal essays or first-person reactions [0] to news these days. I don't think it's necessarily the style that _readers_ prefer, but instead the style that writers feel most comfortable with. Not to say there's not a place for this kind of writing, but it seems to have been increasingly prevalent within the past decade. Interestingly, similar to the answer above, this doesn't seem to be the case for local news. I'll often check in on my hometown's newspaper to see what's going on, or "travel" through local small town news in other locales, and the writing is very much your classical Five W's type of reporting. (Other than the occasional "Andy Rooney"-type corner, but not within the news itself.) [0] Including in the NYT (personal essays), but also very prevalent in tech news, like The Verge.