a photograph of a person being interviewed is something that adds a lot to an article. Does it? It seems that it ought to add nothing to the content - unless t

a photograph of a person being interviewed is something that adds a lot to an article. Does it? It seems that it ought to add nothing to the content - unless the content specifically references their appearance. As well as that, unless it's a person you can google independently (like a head of state, or large company CEO) there's very little chance you can know whether the image is actually the person being interviewed, and even less chance you can tell whether it was /this/ interview. What you do know is that the image will have been posed, chosen from a lot of candidate images, and quite likely edited after that. It might feel good to recognise and see a human face, and therefore "add a lot" from the publisher side - exploiting that sense to make people click and keep people there longer - but that's not quite the same.