Newsday will not alter the content of a photo in a way that would mislead readers by misrepresenting the pictured event. Our goal is to reflect reality as faithfully as possible.
In certain limited and appropriate cases, photos can be altered and used in illustrations creatively to make a graphic point. But any photo illustration that distorts reality must be done in a way that is so obvious or so exaggerated that no reasonable reader will be deceived, and it must be clearly labeled.
We may make changes in tonal values for reproduction purposes.
We will not crop or silhouette images in a way that would mislead readers.
We do not flop photos.