Tribune Publishing to Rethink Police Mug Shots

Robert Feder: The Chicago Tribune announced new guidelines “aimed at the restrained and consistent use of mug shots with news stories.” They’re part of an industrywide reassessment of whether newspapers should continue to publish the photos in an era of clickbait exploitation and eternal life online. The use of police mug shots “might imply guilt of individuals who are, by law, considered innocent until proven guilty.”