Display an image for the first item in a Views news list

Question

I want to create a view to display news like in this image:

The list shows an image only for the first news, the other news only display the title.

Answer 1

Views nodes split does exactly this:

This module allows site administrators or builders to have a different view mode for the first nodes of a view result.

Source: Lullabot - Module Monday: Views Nodes Split

Answer 2

Quick and dirty, if you don't mind having all the images loaded in your page, you can use CSS to display the first one and not all the rest, eg:

.views-row img {
   display: none;
}

.views-row-first img {
   display: block;
}

I would just theme it a bit more specifically on your site, eg, with the views css names and views field names and so forth, the point is that views themes each row specifically, just take a look at the html output.