Is image quality really important?

摘要

The spontaneous answer would be: Of course! However, newsrooms frequently attach greater importance to the topicality or exclusiveness of an image than its technical quality. Does news value always justify such compromises? Not every image that is printed in the newspaper is a good image. In many cases that is not the fault of the processing nor of the printer. Besides image material supplied by the newspaper's own staff and agencies, newsrooms are increasingly receiving images taken by readers with their mobile phones.