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15 Jun

J-Links for June 15: Police, protester altercation exposed; CTV reporter has passed away; journos kicked out of Romney event

<p> </p><p><strong>In Canadian media:</strong></p><p><a href="http://openfile.ca/montreal/blog/2012/student-media-sheds-more-light-la-presses-front-page-photo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Student press captured altercation between police and protestor that made front page news</a></p>

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15 Jun

Police mistreatment of journalists reported in Montreal

<p>Evoking memories of the G20 protests in Toronto in 2010, concerns are being raised about police treatment of journalists during student protests in Montreal.</p><p><br />Reporters have been arrested, told to stop filming and in some cases roughed up by police, according to reports.</p>

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14 Jun

Government reverses decision, restores funding for Literary Press Group

<p>The Literary Press Group has announced that the Department of Canadian Heritage has reversed its <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/publishers-group-loses-funding-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision to revoke</a> federal funding to the group, and that <a href="http://lpg.ca/public/news/lpg039s_canada_book_fund_support_has_been_restored" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support for the Canada Book Fund has been restored</a>.</p>

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14 Jun

CUTV: le direct autrement

<p><strong>Voir aussi: <a href="http://projetj.ca/article/ggi-les-journalistes-victimes-des-policiers-et-des-manifestants">Les journalistes victimes des policiers et des manifestants</a> et <a href="http://projetj.ca/article/une-carte-de-presse-pour-les-journalistes-etudiants">Une carte de presse pour les journalistes étudiants?</a></strong></p>

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14 Jun

J-Links for June 14: Immigration Minister scolds La Presse; The Star looking at paywalls?; Ezra Levant violates ethics code

<p> </p><p><strong>In Canadian media:</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/kenney-rebukes-newspaper-lectures-reporters-on-incomplete-work/article4255779/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Immigration minister publicly reminds journos to be balanced</a></p>

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14 Jun

The Magazine School: Free online resource for instructors

<p> </p><p><strong>By Janice Paskey</strong></p><p>A few years ago, I taught a magazine writing class at Mount Royal University. As part of the course, I asked the students to present a feature story that they liked. Invariably, the articles were from <em>Rolling Stone, Wired, National Geographic, Vanity Fair</em> and a host of other American magazines. Where was our Canadian content?</p>

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13 Jun

CBSC rules Ezra Levant and Sun News Network breached code in Chiquita segment

<p>Ezra Levant can’t say “fuck your mother” on air, even in Spanish, the <a href="http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/2012/120613.php">Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled</a>.</p>

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13 Jun

Telling your own story: Kamal Al-Solaylee talks Intolerable

<p><em>Journalists make a career of telling the stories of other people. But what about when it comes time to tell their own? <strong>Jeff Fraser </strong>explains how Kamal Al-Solaylee coped with this in the writing of his new book </em>Intolerable<em>, a personal memoir that documents his life as a gay man in the Middle East, his distinguished career and how his stories have affected his family.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>By Jeff Fraser</strong></p>

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13 Jun

Converger sans partager les contenus

<p>Par Chantal Francoeur</p><p>La convergence n’a pas d’impact sur la diversité des nouvelles. L’affirmation étonne mais c’est le constat de chercheurs canadiens qui ont étudié trois entreprises de presse en 2007. Colette Brin, Kai Hildebrandt, Lydia Miljan et Walter C. Soderlund ont analysé les contenus des groupes CTVglobemedia, Canwest Global Communications et Quebecor. Ils ont découvert qu’il y avait très peu d’échange de nouvelles entre les journaux et les télés d’un même groupe.</p>

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13 Jun

Voir: le malaise d’une blogueuse

<p><em><font color="#000000">Quelques semaines après que Communications Voir ait annoncé qu'il mettait la clef sous la porte de ses éditions imprimées au Saguenay et en Mauricie et fermait l'hebdomadaire anglophone Hour, hier, le rédacteur en chef du navire amiral montréalais, <a href="http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/medias/352211/voir-encore-en-mutation">Tristan Malavoy-Racine, tirait sa révérence</a>.

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