Melanie Bunch, who became the youngest person to cross the Atlantic alone when she was 14, left New Haven at 10:45 a.m. aboard a 40-foot yacht, her spokesman Devan Johnson told AFP.
Which of the following is the likely genre for the sentence above?

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Also called a feature story, normally presents newsworthy events and information through a narrative story. There is also the text "her spokesman Devan Johnson told AFP," which points to an interview taking place as part of the story. Newspapers typically present stories in this well, as well as including quotes from the people involved, or someone who speaks for them.
Academic papers are usually not written in a story-like structure and are focused on communicating information obtained through research of a particular topic.
Autobiographies are written in narrative form, but are written by the person featured in the book. The author would not refer to the spokesman as "her spokesman" if she were the one writing the book. She would say "my spokesman."
A workplace email would not be relaying information about a new story in this format, unless they were directly quoting the original source, the newspaper.

Melanie Bunch, Who Became the Youngest Person to Cross the Atlantic