Editing Bild (section)

===Images of topless women===
For 28 years from 1984 to 2012, ''Bild'' had [[toplessness|topless]] women featuring on its first page; in total, the paper published more than 5,000 topless pictures.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/mar/09/international-womens-day-germany|work=The Guardian|first=Roy| last=Greenslade|title=Bild banishes its topless model pictures after 28 years|date=9 March 2012}}</ref>

In 2014 Sophia Becker and Kristina Lunz launched a campaign, [[Stop Bild Sexism|Stop ''Bild'' Sexism]], to end the use of sexualized images of women in Bild. The campaign was inspired by the [[No More Page 3]] campaign to get ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'' in the United Kingdom to stop publishing images of half-naked women on [[page 3]].<ref name=Local>{{cite news|last1=Barfield|first1=Tom|title=Meet the women fighting German tabloid sexism|url=http://www.thelocal.de/20150122/meet-the-women-fighting-tabloid-sexism-in-germany|access-date=29 January 2015|work=[[The Local|The Local (German edition)]]|date=22 January 2015}}</ref><ref name=Greenslade>{{cite news|last1=Greenslade|first1=Roy | author-link = Roy Greenslade |title=No More Page 3 inspires campaign against topless pictures in Germany|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/jan/23/no-more-page-3-inspires-campaign-against-topless-pictures-in-germany|access-date=29 January 2015|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=23 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title = Kritik an Bild-Zeitung: Girls und Sexismus|url = http://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/kritik-an-der-bild-zeitung-reduziert-auf-brueste-1.2326843|newspaper = [[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]|access-date = 20 August 2015|issn = 0174-4917|language = de|first = Kathleen|last = Hildebrand|date = 30 January 2015}}</ref> Lunz argues that ''Bild'''s frequent use of images of unclothed women makes its reporting of [[sexual assault]] and [[Sexual harassment|harassment]] "[[Sexism|sexist]] and [[Voyeurism|voyeuristic]]."<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://www.theeuropean.de/kristina-lunz/9751-sexismus-in-der-bild-zeitung|title = Der tägliche Herrenwitz. Mit Macht kommt Verantwortung – die "Bild"-Zeitung nutzt ihren medialen Einfluss trotzdem viel zu oft für sexistische Berichterstattung.|last = Lunz|first = Kristina|date = 6 June 2015|work = The European. Das Debatten-Magazin. Debatten: Sexismus im Deutschland.|access-date = 19 August 2015}}</ref> Becker says that ''Bild'' contributes to the normalisation of sexism in German society.<ref name="Becker">{{cite web | url=http://zodculture.com/sexism/ | title=Sexism in The Media & Its Violent Implications | access-date=20 August 2015 | archive-date=26 March 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326185919/http://zodculture.com/sexism/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> The petition had over 35,000 signatures in January 2015,<ref name=Local /> and [[Axel Springer SE|Springer]], the newspaper's publisher, responded by issuing a statement of values. These include the importance of mutual respect and maintaining respectful interactions.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://andersundgleich-nrw.de/415-petition-gegen-sexismus-in-der-bild.html|title = Petition gegen Sexismus in der BILD|date = 16 January 2015|access-date = 19 August 2015|website = andersundgleich|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151117033254/http://andersundgleich-nrw.de/415-petition-gegen-sexismus-in-der-bild.html|archive-date = 17 November 2015|url-status = dead}}</ref> ''Bild'' stopped publishing "topless productions of our own with women" in March 2018, three years after ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'', while continuing to publish photos of provocatively-posed models dressed in underwear alone.<ref name=telegraph2018>{{cite news|first1=Abby|last1=Young-Powell|access-date=17 March 2018|title=German tabloid Bild hails 'end of an era' as it drops topless models|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/12/german-tabloid-bild-hails-end-era-drops-topless-models/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/12/german-tabloid-bild-hails-end-era-drops-topless-models/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=12 March 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>