Photograph published in graphic media of high newsworthy value
Undoubtedly, the tremendous valuation that we attribute to the image today is responsible for the appearance of new tools and concepts at the request of the mass media, and one of them is the one that concerns us today, that of Fotonoticia.
The Photonoticia is that photograph that a graphic media, such as a newspaper, publishes, and that is characterized by the impact that it is capable of awakening in readers regardless of the accompanying text. That is to say, the shocking load of the image is such that the accompanying text does not exceed it.
Accompanied by a short text
Generally, the text that accompanies the photonews is longer than the one that is placed on a traditional photo in the newspaper, because of course, the photonews is capable per se of expressing the information in a concrete and forceful way.
That is, the Photonoticia is an image, which even, without the corresponding accompaniment of information, that is, of a note, an article, still has informative validity by itself as a consequence of the forcefulness presented by the fact or the person who is portrayed in it, because basically in a photo news what stands out is the graphic fact and therefore the text that could be attached is no longer relevant, the image only represents the news value.
Unlike the traditional, a long text accompanied by a rather small illustrative photograph that has a caption of a very specific line, for example, in a note about the president of the United States, the normal thing is that below His name simply appears Barack Obama and he realizes his participation or presence in this or that place, in the photonews, the recurring thing is much longer captions, of 15 lines maximum and that also includes a title that it will not be able to go beyond the composition line. Meanwhile, since it is a photo that already implies a news event, it will not be necessary for the title in question to be informative, thus allowing greater freedom when choosing the title in question.
Impact and inform at the same time
The objective of any newspaper article is to present the reader with current information that is capable of satisfactorily informing him of a fact. Traditionally, the photo was used to accompany the note, while, as we pointed out at the beginning, in the age of the image, photography took on an unprecedented value, which in many cases even surpasses any word or speculation about it.
For example, it is that the photonews must always be impressive and represent the fact that it informs so that the reader can achieve through it all the information flow.
The main advantage attributed to it by its cultivators is that the photonews is irrefutable proof of the event or event that is portrayed. In addition, the emotional impact on the reader will be much more important.
Although the photo news consists of a single photograph, a sequence of photos can also be presented if the event warrants it.
Although he did not invent the informative modality of photonews in the graphic media, because in fact it has been used in various newspapers around the world for a long time, the Spanish newspaper El País, with a long history in the Spanish press, was the first daily in using this concept and of course also responsible for its popularization.
On the other hand, the news set, that is, the photograph, plus its caption and title, are generally included within a box embraced by two horizontal fillets, which will delimit its space and also help to highlight its presence within the page.
