Example: Personality Feature With News Hook

Here is an excellent example of a personality feature article with a news hook (in this case, "time is running out.") This is an excerpt from the Washington Post. To read the entire article click here.

Evangelist Charles Colson’s final mission: Spiritually cloning himself

Charles Colson assembles the newest members of his Christian army at a Loudoun County convention hall on a winter Saturday.

Former Nixon aide-turned-evangelist embarks on his final mission.

Seated before the aging Watergate-era felon-turned-evangelical leader are dozens of handpicked disciples: a woman who sings at patriotic events, a sports psychology professor, a real estate developer, a pharmaceutical salesman.

They’ve spent the year — and as much as $4,000 — reading the books Colson reads, watching the movies he watches, praying the way he prays. It’s all part of an ambitious effort by Colson to replicate his spiritual DNA and ensure that his vision of Christianity doesn’t die when he does.

“This is the time for us to metastasize and impact society!” the gravelly-voiced former Nixon aide tells his rapt audience. “And this is a really, really urgent hour.”

For decades after emerging from a federal penitentiary, Colson focused on building what has become the world’s biggest prison ministry. Now, at 79, he has shifted his attention to the final mission of his remarkable life: saving what he regards as true Christianity from American extinction.

Time is running out.