First-person feature stories?

Yes, agreed on Rodgers. It makes life easier when your subject is game. I can still remember a Miley Cyrus profile for Rolling Stone when she obviously made an effort to give the writer a good story. Hang on, let me try to find it.

Okay, here it is:

Miley Cyrus on the Cover of Rolling Stone - Rolling Stone

Josh Eells, the writer, is really good, but when your subject gets a tattoo while you're with her and takes you skydiving—I mean, you're gonna be fine.

 

I didn't understand that ending at all.

 

I read this story all the way though, but didn't think this lede was necessary. Sometimes the first person lede works, and sometimes it doesn't.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentral.com/amp/723712001

 

This is a good way to put it for sure. I think I see some problems with it sometimes. But in this day and age everyone has a platform for their own narrative/message/whatever, so it's just the way it is.

 

A great story where the author's insertion of himself at the end of a long opening paragraph is jarring and unnecessary:

The Coast Guard’s ‘Floating Guantánamos’

 

But it’s important for him to tell us he was on the boat!