{"id":741,"date":"2006-10-30T07:39:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T07:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/8-kinds-of-visuals-to-enhance-your-story\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:54:10","slug":"8-kinds-of-visuals-to-enhance-your-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/8-kinds-of-visuals-to-enhance-your-story\/","title":{"rendered":"8 kinds of visuals to enhance your story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you pitch environmental journalists, take a look at this\u00a0post from the <a href=\"http:\/\/greenmediatoolshed.blogs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Media Toolshed<\/a> about the importance of visuals with a story, and eight different types of visuals.<\/p>\n<p>The tips come from journalists at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sejarchive.org\/confer\/austin\/agenda.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Society of Environmental Journalists<\/a> convention. During a panel discussion called Visualizing your Stories, three award-winning environmental reporters shared their strategies for coming up with the perfect visual to help complete their story&#8212;and make it more attractive to their readership.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00a0mentioned\u00a0a graphic for timelines, data trends over time, maps, comparative data, sequential events, report cards, explaining complicated processes, and multi-layers of data, such as showing the relation between income, race and pollution.<\/p>\n<p>In my ebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/shop\/how-to-use-photos-graphics-in-your-publicity-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;How to Use Photos &amp; Graphics in Your Publicity Campaign,&#8221;<\/a> I quote a magane editor who says that a good visual can sometimes move a story from\u00a0the back of the magazine to the front. \u00a0<br \/> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you pitch environmental journalists, take a look at this\u00a0post from the Green Media Toolshed about the importance of visuals with a story, and eight different types of visuals. The tips come from journalists at the Society of Environmental Journalists convention. During a panel discussion called Visualizing your Stories, three award-winning environmental reporters shared their\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/8-kinds-of-visuals-to-enhance-your-story\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[619],"class_list":{"0":"post-741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-photos-graphics","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41161,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/41161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}