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    Doctoring the image

    Last week The Economist admitted to doctoring a photo of Obama, using the argument that it’s all part of the art of the cover. It’s another puzzler in the debate over ethics in the age of digital photography. Obama’s treatment is nothing new: a look at photo tampering through history shows even Honest Abe’s image…

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    Role of social media in news laid bare during G20

    An excellent analysis of the role of social media in news coverage is presented by Antonia Zerbisias in the Toronto Star on July 11. She aptly describes how Twitter became a news sources for untold numbers of people as journalists on the front lines used social media as an instant news wire, sending valuable, pertinent…

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    Torstar, CTVglobemedia and Gesca to take over CP

    Three of Canada’s largest media companies are the mystery investors poised to take over Canadian Press. Torstar, CTVglobemedia and Gesca could own the cooperative by the fall, if union negotiations go well…

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    CJFE Conducting Survey On G20 Incidents

    Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) is conducting a survey of journalists who believe their freedom of expression was compromised by police/security personnel during the G-20 security operation. This collection of information will result in a public report by CJFE. Further information and a survey questionnaire are available on the CJFE website. 

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    Fence holds up, rights not quite so sturdy

    Ah, civil liberties. So long fought for, so quickly dispensed with. Throughout the week, J-Source worked hard to keep up with reports of police actions against journalists during the G20/8 Summit. The roughed-up and handcuffed included a CTV field producer, the National Post’s photographers, and reporters for the Guardian and Real News. The Guardian’s Jesse…

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    G20: At least one reporter beaten, several arrested

    Toronto journalist Jesse Rosenfeld was arrested and beaten outside the G20 security fence near Toronto’s downtown Novotel hotel on Saturday night. Rosenfeld was on assignment for the British newspaper The Guardian. According to his own account of events and that of TV Ontario host Steve Paikin, police punched Rosenfeld in the stomach and back while…

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    Canadian journalist arrested, possibly beaten

    Jesse Rosenfeld, a Canadian journalist reporting on the G20 for the Guardian newspaper, has been arrested and possibly beaten, his friends and father say. Mr. Rosenfeld, a Canadian activist journalist based in Tel Aviv and Jaffa in Israel, was in Canada for the summer and on assignment from Britain’s Guardian to cover the G20.