I'm designing a news site, I use thumbnails of news on the homepage, Should I use them with div or figure tag ?

sample figure,

<a href="/news_url">
<figure>
  <img src="news.jpg" alt="news">
  <figcaption>News headline</figcaption>
</figure></a>

sample div,

<a href="/news_url">
<div>
  <img src="news.jpg" alt="news">
</div>
  <span>News headline</span>
</a>

Does it make any difference in terms of SEO?