Your opening image on Medium will serve as your story’s ambassador everywhere: social media news feeds, Reddit, Google News — even RSS readers.
The opening image in this article the writer chose an image of Emma Stone portraying an aspiring journalist at her typewriter in the 1960s. It’s from the popular 2011 period movie “The Help.”
A stock photo of someone sitting at their laptop would have looked too generic. Our news feeds are already filled with these pictures.
The images are there to visually reinforce each story’s message, while lending them flavor.
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