ENHANCING CREDIBILITY OF STORIES

This project is basically to ascertain the impact of pictures in enhancing credibility of storiesin the print media. The method adopted for collecting data for this research was the surveymethod, with questionnaire as the instrument. The main objective is to find out the impact pictures creates in ensuring stories credibility. The theory use in this research was the sourcecredibility theory and uses and gratification theory. Based on the analysis, the result showedthat pictures attract and guarantees better understanding of the stories. This entails that picture is inevitable in making stories interesting and attractive. From the findings it showedthat picture has a role to play in ensuring stories credibility, the study therefore, recommendsthat more awareness should be created on picture and its role to news presentation.