Today.com Photo Reporting

The use of photography on today.com is extremely prevalent. Being a multimedia site its content is rich with lots video, article photos, and user-generated content of both. In general Today will use photos that reporters have taken on scene of a story, photos sent in my users of an event, or social media postings, all in order to make a story more compelling for the viewer. These same photos will then be posted to the article counterpart of an on-air story online at today.com.

 A large majority of today.com’s photo reporting can be found in these article photos, photos from that day’s show clip, or snap shots of social media postings from Instagram or Pinterest. In order to tell a story about a celebrity’s recent Instagram is it important to provide viewers with the photo. The same goes for any particular story online. During an on-air report photos will appear during a voice-over and though viewers can re-watch these segments on today.com, while they are there, they can view those photos from the segment close up, as they are placed throughout the written article covering the story.

For a majority of online articles Today utilizes the photo sources from AP and Getty Images, as well as its own photographs from reporters located at major news stories, but its man bulk of images does come form user-generated content. Subject based stories aired on Today will have photos submitted by the subject.

Every story on today.com is partnered with a subject based photo on the story. Site viewers are able to get a good grasp on what the story will detail based on simply its headline and the partnering photo. The photos make today.com lively, and with stories changing every day, in all topics, there is nothing boring about the site. Because of the topics ranging from headline news, lifestyle, home life, food, and entertainment there is a wide ranging use of photos from various sources, thus making today.com the one place where they all come together.