Talent saw couple occasionally featuring in newspaper story at last (7)
I believe the answer is:
faculty
'talent' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'saw couple occasionally featuring in newspaper story at last' is the wordplay.
'occasionally' indicates alternate letters.
'featuring in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'newspaper' becomes 'FT' (Financial Times newspaper).
'at last' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'story' is 'y'.
'saw'+'couple'='sawcouple'
The alternate letters of 'sawcouple' are 'acul'.
'acul' inserted within 'ft' is 'facult'.
'facult'+'y'='FACULTY'
(Other definitions for faculty that I've seen before include "Group of academic departments" , "Group of university departments" , "Memory possibly" , "Section of university; aptitude" , "part of academic institution" .)