Both the Star Tribune and USA Today feature videos and photos in their newspapers' websites. Both organizations report a news brief using a photo slideshow. The Star Tribune updates its slideshow - "Photos of the week" - once a week while USA Today creates a new slide every day, titled "The day in pictures." These photos use the two-sentence format, which summarizes the essence of the photo in the first and advance the story in a broader view in the second sentence. For the videos, both the Star Tribune and USA Today create videos to give an in-depth complement of the news stories. Many of them are feature stories, which appeal to readers emotionally by the visuals in the stories. The two organizations rely mostly on visuals when creating video news stories such that not much writing is used.
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