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28 Jun

CTV field producer arrested during G20

CTV field producer Farzad Fatholahzadeh was covering the G20 protests at Queen’s Park when he was tackled by plainclothes police officers. Police put him in handcuffs and took him to […]

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28 Jun

National Post photographers arrested during G20

National Post photographers Brett Gundlock and Colin O’Connor were arrested while covering the G20 Summit. Check out the Post’s photo of police officers tackling Gundlock. The pair were taken into […]

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28 Jun

Time’s best blogs of 2010

Time Magazine‘s annual list of  ‘best blogs’ includes a few journalism blogs, but not many–and certainly no Canadian journalism blogs. Which makes us at J-Source wonder: was it an oversight […]

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28 Jun

Stuff for summer

Summer is officially upon us! For j-school students, it’s been going on for a couple of months now, and for our younger compatriots, the j-school students to-be (i.e., the newly […]

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28 Jun

Interview with journalist arrested and beaten covering G20

In a Rabble Radio podcast, journalist Jesse Rosenfeld speaks about covering the G20, his violent arrest, and the conditions in the holding cell. Rosenfeld was on assignment for The Guardian, […]

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27 Jun

Canadian journalist arrested, possibly beaten

By Anna Mehler Paperny Jesse Rosenfeld, a Canadian journalist reporting on the G20 for the Guardian newspaper, has been arrested and possibly beaten, his friends and father say.His girlfriend, Carmelle […]

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25 Jun

UPDATE: Lockdown ended G20 Media Centre

A lockdown at the G20 media center in Toronto has ended, according to  CBC television. According to CBC, a lockdown at the Allstream building where media accreditation is taking place, […]

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24 Jun

Taboo topics welcomed on Twitter

There’s plenty of things we’re not supposed to discuss in polite conversation, but how about on Twitter? Between a live-blogged execution and details of rectal harpoons, you got to wonder: […]

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24 Jun

The Economist: the strange survival of ink

The Economist reports that, despite a dismal series of revenue declines and budget cuts, the newspaper industry still has a few tricks up its sleeve that might save it from […]

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24 Jun

CTV interview: Rolling Stone writer didn’t expect general to be fired

In an interview with CTV, Rolling Stone freelancer Michael Hastings says he expected fallout from the investigative piece, but didn’t know McChrystal would be be fired. CTV reports: ” “I […]

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