VISUAL JOURNALISM

What is Visual Journalism?

Visual Journalism is basically the combination of words and images to convey information.

Visual Journalism has its roots dated back to ancient cave paintings. Visual Journalism is not a series of symbols with meaning, but rather images suggesting complex meanings.

As quoted by Head Of Communications at Canva, Zach Kitscheke,

he defines visual journalism as " The act of making your point through images and is one of the most important skills that you as a journalist can take into account."

He refers its importance towards social media such as Blogs, Facebook,Twitter etc, which is basically the use of images and words to convey messages.

              

An estimation of over 1.8 billion people are known to have active social media accounts, which makes visual journalism at the top of the charts as being most effective way of disseminating journalistic findings to media users. Many are the times it has been proven that words and pictures stick or are more re collective to the human mind especially if that particular set of words and imagery is or seems interesting. Visual Journalism is more of a journalists voice with use of images and words, which makes journalistic creativity have a conversion on paper. visual journalism not only explores the journalists creativity, but also explores the audiences retention to that particular set of imagery and words creating a network of brainstorming thought.

Print media is also a form of visual journalistic creativity as it incorporates words with pictures to inform, educate and entertain.

       

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