Photo Ethics Update

Earlier we wrote about an altered Reuters photo of burning buildings in Beirut. The photo was taken by freelance photographer Adnan Hajj.

On Monday, August 7th, Reuters announced it was removing all 920 of Hajj's photos from its database after a second image was discovered to have been altered. Hajj changed a photo of an Israeli F-16 fighter, increasing the number of flairs it was dropping from one to three.

Reuters photo editor Tom Szlukoveny said, "There is no graver breach of Reuters standards for our photographers than the deliberate manipulation of an image."

Link: Reuters withdraws all photos by freelancer