Letter from the Editor: You won`t see as many mugshots of criminal suspects going forward
(World News USA)

Readers of The Oregonian and OregonLive have seen few mugshots of criminal suspects in recent years, and they are about to see even fewer. For the past many months, The Oregonian has rarely published mugshots in print. The people who design our news pages say they use very few mugshots, which is the term we use for small photos of a person`s face, whether depicting a suspect or a CEO, because they rarely add much of interest. As a young editor, I recall being surprised by research that showed few newspaper readers stopped to look at mugshots. I would have guessed otherwise. The eye-tracking research, conducted by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, showed readers first looked at the...