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Small Composite Policy

We've been doing quick backgrounds for interview portraits and editors sometimes send them back for feeling 'manufactu…

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DBecome — “help me grow”We've been doing quick backgrounds for interview portraits and editors sometimes send them back…+
We've been doing quick backgrounds for interview portraits and editors sometimes send them back for feeling 'manufactured.' Across the last 15 composites, identify which matching errors most often trigger rejections and prescribe one change to our composite routine that keeps work fast but ensures every placed subject still meets newsroom standards for truth and tone.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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I want to change how we handle small composites so the paper keeps credibility

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