Thursday, 3. April 2003

Topic: W A R - on April 3, 2003 at 10:55:59 AM CEST

Photographer dismissed after altering Iraq photo

The Los Angeles Times said Wednesday it fired a photographer for altering a front page photo of a British soldier and a group of Iraqi civilians.

In an editor's note in Wednesday editions, the Times said photographer Brian Walski acknowledged in a phone call from Iraq that he had used a computer to combine elements of two photos to improve the composition.

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Editor's Note On Monday, March 31, the Los Angeles Times published a front-page photograph that had been altered in violation of Times policy.

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