In the keen competition for media environment and highly developed graphics technology, the media has used lots of information graphics in news report to attract the audience’s attention. The usage frequency of newspaper graphics has been rapidly increased. However, the ethics of newspaper graphics has been constantly ignored. Establishing the ethical codes of newspaper graphics is of great urgency.
This study would refer to the ethical codes of text news and news photograph, thus making an attempt on establishing exclusive codes of newspaper graphics. By analyzing the case of media, this study reviews and discusses the ethical issue of newspaper graphics in the current media industry. The study remakes the newspaper graphic of Business Weekly at the end, in order to prove the ethical codes really work by having a different approach.
中文關鍵詞
新聞圖表,新聞倫理,視覺操弄,圖表敘事
英文關鍵詞
newspaper,information graphics,code of ethics,visual manipulation,graphic narrative