'All-New' Martha isn't all Martha.

Newsweek's March 7 cover featured what looked like a photo of Martha Stewart. But it was actually an image combining a photo of her face and one of a model's body. The idea, say Newsweek editors, was to portray Stewart as she might look when she emerged from prison. A credit on page 3 identified the image as a "photo illustration." But critics say the image was realistic enough to be misleading. "If the reader thinks it's a news photo, an actual photograph, as opposed to a piece of art, then you should never change the truth of the photo," says Janice E. Castro, director of graduate journalism programs at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. The National Press Photographers Association called the Newsweek cover "a total breach of ethics." Mark Whitaker, Newsweek's editor, apologized to readers in the March 14 issue. "Starting this week," he wrote, "we will, identify the origin of our main cover image in a credit on the cover itself."