{"id":78,"date":"2015-06-01T22:20:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T22:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:49:36","slug":"ethics-images","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/ethics\/ethics-images\/","title":{"rendered":"IMAGES &#038; ETHICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Accuracy, context, cultural sensitivity<\/strong>, and an awareness of how things can go wrong are all part of an ethical approach to using images. Codes of professional ethics encourage awareness and condemn news manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the problems come up due to political or racial prejudices, as some of the following examples show.\u00a0 It&#8217;s important to emphasize that journalists and media professionals are responsible for avoiding hateful speech.<\/p>\n<h3>Racist Images<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div id=\"attachment_7247\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/06\/trump-barack-obama-michelle-truth-social-epstein-latest-news-updates\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7247\" class=\"wp-image-7247\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-06-at-8.21.23-AM-300x233.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-06-at-8.21.23-AM-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-06-at-8.21.23-AM-1024x795.png 1024w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-06-at-8.21.23-AM-768x596.png 768w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-06-at-8.21.23-AM-800x621.png 800w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-06-at-8.21.23-AM.png 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feb. 5, 2026 &#8212; US President Donald Trump sparked outrage with this AI &#8211; Generated depiction of former President Barak Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CBTs67Oh1MI\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u00a0Volkswagen Golf, 2020\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-27-at-8.19.14-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4497 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-27-at-8.19.14-AM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/volkswagen-execs-horrified-over-racist-ad-showing-large-white-hands-flicking-a-black-man-2020-05-21\">Volkswagen&#8217;s racist ad from May 2020\u00a0 &#8220;horrified&#8221; management<\/a> when they realized what their agency had done. A company official apologized and called it \u201can insult to every decent person.\u201d\u00a0 The 10-second clip depicted a pair of oversize white hands dragging a black man away from a new VW Golf 8 sedan, and flicking him violently into a restaurant called \u201cPetit Colon,\u201d a name with overtones of colonization. <span style=\"color: #444444;\">Briefly as a spokeswoman reads the phrase \u201cDer Neue Golf,\u201d or \u201cthe new Golf,\u201d as it appears on the screen, the letters materialize in an order that briefly spells the German n-word.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/08\/dove-apologises-for-ad-showing-black-woman-turning-into-white-one\"><strong>Dove Soap apologized<\/strong><\/a> in 2017 after an ad was published that showed an\u00a0 African American woman using Dove Soap and then turning White. This is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalcommonwealth.org\/search\/commonwealth:7m01bq19d\">old racist trope<\/a> more at home in the 1870s than the 21st century.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Yom Kippur news graphic, 2015 <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/irviz3hd7muyk9xdcprr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1187\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/irviz3hd7muyk9xdcprr-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"irviz3hd7muyk9xdcprr\" width=\"175\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/irviz3hd7muyk9xdcprr-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/irviz3hd7muyk9xdcprr.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a> Another highly insensitive media faux-pas\u00a0 was this use of a Nazi concentration camp emblem as an illustration for a 2015 story about the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur.\u00a0 This is one obvious reason that an education in the humanities is crucial for journalists and media professionals.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Iowa newspaper mug shots, 2015 \u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/mugshots-300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/mugshots-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>Racism is often built into the crime reporting \u00a0system.\u00a0 For example, this selection of mug shots to illustrate arrest stories appeared in March of 2015 in the Cedar Rapids Iowa Gazette newspaper. The Gazette reported on two groups of people who were arrested for two burglaries. \u00a0The police mug shots of the Black group were posted, while yearbook pictures were posted for the White group. \u00a0After this comparison showed up in social media, the Gazette went back to the police department and got the mug shots for the White\u00a0 group.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><b>\u00a0Olympics, 2021:\u00a0 <\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One example of stereotyping took place during the opening ceremonies of the 2021\u00a0 Olympics, when <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/olympics\/2021\/07\/26\/mbc-korean-olympics-stereotypes-apology\/\">a South Korean television station broadcast stereotypical images<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &#8220;to help viewers quickly identify each country.&#8221;\u00a0 The station broadcast pictures of salmon fish for Norway, the Chernobyl disaster for Ukraine, and demonstration on a burning street for Haiti. Representatives of those countries objected and the TV station apologized.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Also at the 2021 Olympics, the coordinator of the opening ceremonies <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/japan-former-pm-abe-will-not-attend-games-opening-ceremony-nhk-2021-07-22\/\">was fired after making public jokes about the European Holocaust<\/a>, in which more than six million Jewish people were murdered by Nazis in the 1930s and 40s.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Reports on Asiana Flight 214 &#8211; 2013\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Asiana214.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3554\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Asiana214-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Asiana214-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Asiana214.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Racism and racial slurs are deeply objectionable even in the context of a &#8220;joke.&#8221;\u00a0 Reporting on the crash of Asiana flight 214 in the summer of 2013, TV news reporters were fooled into using names of the crew that included &#8220;Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Hurricane Katrina photo captions 2003\u00a0show racism\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div id=\"attachment_3552\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3552\" class=\"wp-image-3552 \" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/looter.cyn78.300805074130-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"319\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two residents wade through chest-deep water after<em><strong> finding<\/strong> <\/em>bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana.(AFP\/Getty Images\/Chris Graythen)<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td>\n<div id=\"attachment_3551\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3551\" class=\"wp-image-3551 \" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/looter.ap10208301530-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/looter.ap10208301530-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/looter.ap10208301530.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young man walks through chest deep flood water after<em><strong> looting<\/strong> <\/em>a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Flood waters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage when it made landfall on Monday. (AP Photo\/Dave Martin)<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><strong>PHOTO MANIPULATION\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Photo manipulation presents us with ethical dilemmas of varying degrees of severity.\u00a0 In some cases, the photographers or editors are fired when unethical images are used. In other cases, such as the magazine cover from the Economist, the ethical issue is debatable.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div id=\"attachment_3545\" style=\"width: 503px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3545\" class=\"wp-image-3545 \" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Obama.Economist-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Obama.Economist-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Obama.Economist-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Obama.Economist-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Obama.Economist-800x451.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Obama.Economist.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Economist magazine, 2010, isolated then-president Barack Obama in a cover photo. The original is to the right. The Economist is implying that Obama was bowed down by the weight of the controversy when, at least in the original photo, he was bending down to listen to someone.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>OJ Simpson, Newsweek and Time,\u00a0 1994<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3556\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3556\" class=\"wp-image-3556 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ojcovers1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Did Time Magazine act unethically when it darkened the face of OJ Simpson to make him seem more sinister?<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<strong>Kent State massacre photo, 1970<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1214\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kent-state-massacre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1214\" class=\"wp-image-1214\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kent-state-massacre-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"kent-state-massacre\" width=\"421\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kent-state-massacre-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kent-state-massacre-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kent-state-massacre-800x550.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kent-state-massacre.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This 1970 Pulitzer-prize winning photo by John Filo depicts Mary Ann Vecchio at the Kent\u00a0State Campus reacting just after\u00a0National Guard troops killed\u00a020-year-old Jeffrey Miller. The version on the right, with the apparent &#8220;merger&#8221; of a fence post with the top of Vecchio&#8217;s head, is actually the original. \u00a0The version on the left has the fence post airbrushed out, which is not ethical in a news photo.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>War in Iraq\u00a0 2003\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Walski3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Walski3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"233\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>This first photo is a composite in which a soldier appears to be telling a man with a child in distress to sit down. The two photos from which this is drawn tell a different story. The photographer responsible for these photos was dismissed from the LA Times two days after the composites came to light.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Walski1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Walski1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BrianWalski.LATimes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BrianWalski.LATimes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sree.net\/teaching\/images\/lat2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sree.net\/teaching\/images\/lat1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>\u00a0 Photo Fakes\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/farcical-aquatic-ceremony-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"281\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Fox News takes Reddit post seriously.<br \/>\nIn a story about a temporary &#8220;autonomous zone&#8221; in Seattle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fox-news-mistakes-monty-python-evidence-seattle-chaos-2020-6\">Fox News fell for a\u00a0 Monty Python joke<\/a>. Here Martha MacCallum reads from a Reddit post about just how grim things have become in the zone during the confrontations of the summer of 2020. The picture on screen and the text of the news report are both\u00a0 from the 1975 movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a light comedy about the Dark Ages.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3548\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3548\" class=\"wp-image-3548 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fox-news-seattle-protest-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fox-news-seattle-protest-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fox-news-seattle-protest-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fox-news-seattle-protest-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fox-news-seattle-protest.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On June 12, 2020, Fox television <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/fox-news-fake-image-photo-george-floyd-protests-seattle-a9565061.html\">resented this and several other digitally manipulated images<\/a>\u00a0 to make civil protests look like riots in June 2020. Fox claimed it was a simple error, but it was clearly unethical.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Artificial intelligence and images<\/strong> is also a growing concern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AI.Sahni_.sm_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6149 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AI.Sahni_.sm_-300x146.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AI.Sahni_.sm_-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AI.Sahni_.sm_.png 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The image on the left was denied copyright registration in December 2023 because it lacked originality.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Resources\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nppa.org\/professional_development\/business_practices\/ethics.html\">National Press Photographers Code of Ethics <\/a><\/strong>Editing should maintain the integrity of the photographic images\u2019 content and context. Do not manipulate images or add or alter sound in any way that can mislead viewers or misrepresent subjects.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\/\"><b>Associated Press<\/b>. <\/a>\u00a0AP pictures must always tell the truth. We do not alter or manipulate the content of a photograph in any way. The content of a photograph must not be altered in PhotoShop or by any other means. No element should be digitally added to or subtracted from any photograph. The faces or identities of individuals must not be obscured by PhotoShop or any other editing tool. Only retouching or the use of the cloning tool to eliminate dust and scratches are acceptable. Minor adjustments in PhotoShop are acceptable&#8230; (but) &#8230;\u00a0Changes in density, contrast, color and saturation levels that substantially alter the original scene are not acceptable. Backgrounds should not be digitally blurred or eliminated by burning down or by aggressive toning.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/blog\/archives\/4327\"><b>R<span style=\"color: #000000;\">euters<\/span><\/b><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">: \u00a0No additions or deletions to the subject matter of the original image. (thus changing the original content and journalistic integrity of an image). \u00a0No excessive lightening, darkening or blurring of the image\u00a0(thus misleading the viewer by disguising certain elements of an image).\u00a0No excessive colour manipulation. (thus dramatically changing the original lighting conditions of an image). \u00a0Only minor Photoshop work should be performed in the field\u00a0(especially from laptops). We require only cropping, sizing and levels with resolution set to 300 dpi. Where possible, ask your regional or global picture desks to perform any required further Photo-shopping on their calibrated hi-resolution screens&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rcfp.org\/photoguide\/\"><strong>Photographer\u2019s Guide to Privacy<\/strong><\/a> by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Reading<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spj.org\/ethics-case-studies-offensive-images\/\">SPJ Offensive Images\u00a0<\/a> examples<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accuracy, context, cultural sensitivity, and an awareness of how things can go wrong are all part of an ethical approach to using images. Codes of professional ethics encourage awareness and condemn news manipulation. 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