Photographs are vital for news websites as they add impact to stories, allow readers to examine details at their leisure unlike videos, and entice readers to click on articles. It is important to verify citizen journalist photos match the location and outfits of the event. News sites should use many large, clear photographs including 3-4 within articles, and close-ups of people's eyes for personal stories, to grab readers' attention in today's visual media landscape.

1. What makes a good picture and why are they vital
in a news environment dominated by videos?
Using photographs for
a news website

2. Why use pictures?
 They add a punch to journalism
 Pictures have a different type of resonance and power.They can
freeze a situation so that readers can peruse and look closer at
their leisure – something that videos aren’t able to do
 Pictures draw readers to a piece so that they click on the stories

3. How to tell if pictures are genuine?
 News websites get citizen
journalists sending in
pictures. It’s important to
check if the background and
setting tally with where the
story happened
 EgAre the people wearing
the right clothes?
 Be careful of people who try
to pass off some pictures as
something else. Tsunami photos by citizen journos. Can you tell
which one is the tsunami in Japan and the tsunami
that hitThailand in 2006?

4. How to use pictures
 The current trend is to make
pictures Vogue-ish
 Use as many pictures as possible
and make them as big as you can.
Particularly the cover picture
 Insert 3-4 pictures within an
article
 If it’s a personal story, use a nice
clear shot of the person. Focus on
the eyes