New technology has made manipulating images in newspapers and magazines easy to do. A panel at the Way New Journalism Conference discussed new technology available to the media and the problems of accuracy and truth that this technology creates.
In today's world of journalism, darkrooms are almost non-existent. Now, with computer technology, photographs can be manipulated at the push of a button.
Visual photo cover illustrator Bill Duke said that when a manipulated photograph or image is being used, it should be made clear that photograph has been changed.
"There's an understanding that what changes we do to pictures on a computer is limited to what we were able to do in the darkroom," said Elizabeth Mangelsdorf, a photographer at the San Francisco Examiner. "You just don't know anymore what has been manipulated or not when everybody has access to the software."