Essay: What are the impacts of using pictures in newspaper articles? Hey guys, it would be very great if someone could correct this essay :) Due to the digitalisation of a lot of articles there is an increasing number of pictures used in newspapers. How does this effect the consumer? Big illustration are for most people more interesting than just a huge site full of text. Hence, for the news agency it is a good opportunity to make the newspapers more attractive to buy. But also the consumer takes advantage, because pictures can be a good visually support for reading the article, for example to see how the in the article mentioned people look like. It is scientifically proven that images have a much greater effect to people than text because the brain perceive them in another way. That can be used positive as well as negative. Nowadays especially terrorists utilize that, because their aim is to spread fears. So, when people see the pictures of a terrorist attack, they feel often much less safe even though the possibility to be involved in such an attack is lower than winning in lottery. However, there is also the chance to effect people in positive way and raise the awareness of a problem. So, to convince people to think about their waste and the environmental impact it can be helpful to show them the polluted ocean and the hole in ozone layer. In conclusion, the decision whether to print pictures or not, should be taken depending on the topic. Nevertheless, for newspaper agency it is a effective way to increase the selling numbers by making the articles seem more attractive.