The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word FEATURES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result FEATURES
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The straight part
We know that "in newspapers" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case in newspapers = features.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does FEATURES mean?
FEATURES noun- One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
- An important or main item.
- A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
- Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
- A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
- Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
- Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
- (machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed.
- The act of being featured in a piece of music.
- The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
- To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
- To star, to contain.
- To appear, to make an appearance.
- To have features resembling.