With their strong visual impact,vivid visual reproduction and information transmission,the news pictures bring the audience visual enjoyment,and at the same time,they can satisfy the audience s psychological needs of immediately knowing the truth and seeing the event spot.

Visual impact and shock to the reader s heart given by news pictures can t be expressed by words.

This paper analyses "feature of earthquake relief work" in the light of report content,report strategy and news pictures and generalizes the characteristics of features.

Exerting the functions of news pictures in newspapers and periodicals;

In this article I make a visual content analysis on 1306 news photos from the New York Times and the Washington Post during the Iraqi war, and then make a further analysis on a set of photos by semiotic approach.

The news photos on newspaper could convey certain information and culture on purpose through invisible language such as selecting, adjusting, editing and intensifying of the images, which constitute the unique rhetoric of pictures.

With the means of reportage diversified and modernizing day by day , deep changes has taken place about edition elements of newspaper , especial for news photograph .

Thenews photograph is defined as recent events reported on time, which thereforedefines what the thesis centers around.

The news photograph is an important content of the news report and occupies a unique position in the studies of Journalism.