Informanté crossed the line with Pitt’s suicide photograph: Nakuta

Contributed by NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 13 NOV (NAMPA) – Media Ombudsman, John Nakuta has said the weekly Informanté newspaper “crossed the line” when it published a photograph of a suicide in an online report.
The photograph depicted Ivan Pitt, who was at the time wanted for the alleged murder of his girlfriend, hanging from the ceiling of a garage with a rope around his neck.
In his report to the Editors Forum of Namibia (EFN) during the latter’s Annual General Meeting on Friday, Nakuta said although he is yet to finalise ...