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Free Stock Photos & Footage for Your Story

Royalty-free images and video clips for student journalism projects. No budget? No problem — these sources are all free to use.

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1Unsplash

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2Pexels

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3Pixabay

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4Nappy.co

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5Free Stock Footage

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6The Noun Project

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7Open Video Project

Find high-quality photos

Over 3 million free, high-resolution photos from professional photographers — no attribution required.

💡 Pro tip: Use specific search terms (not just 'city') to find unique images that haven't been overused.

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Unsplash

Arts & Humanities

The internet's source for freely-usable images. Over 3 million high-resolution photos contributed by photographers worldwide. No attribution required.

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Search photos and videos

Free stock photos AND videos — great for multimedia journalism projects.

💡 Pro tip: Pexels' video library is underrated — find b-roll footage for your video stories here.

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Pexels

Arts & Humanities

Free stock photos and videos with no attribution required. High-quality, diverse photography for journalism projects, presentations, and publications.

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Browse illustrations and vectors

Free photos, illustrations, vectors, and video clips — over 2.6 million assets with no licensing headaches.

💡 Pro tip: Use the 'Editorial' filter for news-appropriate images that look more journalistic.

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Pixabay

Arts & Humanities

Over 2 million free stock images, videos, illustrations, and vectors. All content is released under a royalty-free license for commercial and editorial use.

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Find diverse stock photos

Beautiful, high-resolution photos featuring Black and Brown people — fill the diversity gap in traditional stock photography.

💡 Pro tip: Great for stories about communities of color where representation in imagery matters.

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Nappy.co

Arts & Humanities

Free high-resolution photos of Black and Brown people. Beautiful, diverse stock photography that better represents the real world. No attribution required.

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Download free video clips

Royalty-free video clips for student video projects — no watermarks, no licensing fees.

💡 Pro tip: Download in the highest resolution available — you can always scale down but never up.

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Free Stock Footage

Arts & Humanities

Curated collection of royalty-free stock video footage. HD clips organized by category for use in journalism, documentary, and multimedia projects.

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Find icons for infographics

Millions of simple, clean icons — perfect for data visualizations and infographic storytelling.

💡 Pro tip: Download SVGs so you can customize colors to match your publication's style.

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The Noun Project

Arts & Humanities

Massive library of free icons and symbols for visual storytelling. Use icons in data visualizations, infographics, and multimedia journalism projects.

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Use open-access video resources

Academic and documentary video content that's free to use in educational journalism projects.

💡 Pro tip: Great for historical and documentary-style video journalism assignments.

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Open Video Project

Arts & Humanities

Digital video library with a focus on educational and public domain video content. Browse and search for documentary, instructional, and historical video clips.

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