Introduction [excerpt] Photojournalists possess the responsibility to present audiences with imagaes that truthfully represent what the adjoining story is communicating. This is why the topic of photo manipulation is important to the field of communication, because being honest with the public and conveying tangible evidence to them is crucial to the authenticity of the publication. This study will set out to find why photo manipulation is used by photojournalists and how its process may affect the way society...