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David, Prabu – Human Communication Research, 1998
Investigates four experiments on whether the addition of a representative picture to a news item improves recall of that item by undergraduate students in journalism courses. Finds that it does; that concrete news items were recalled better than abstract news items; and news concreteness was strongly correlated with various picture attributes,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Journalism Research, Mass Media Use, News Reporting