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11:20 AM ET, January 9, 2015

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Guardian:
Guardian Media Group pledges £100,000 to sustain Charlie Hebdo's publication, sees no need to publish its cartoons  —  The Guardian view on Charlie Hebdo: show solidarity, but in your own voice  —  Journalists were murdered for exercising free speech.  They trampled on religious taboos.
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
A Close Call on Publication of Charlie Hebdo Cartoons  —  Was The Times cowardly and lacking in journalistic solidarity when it decided not to publish the images from the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that precipitated the execution of French journalists?  —  Some readers I've heard from certainly think so.
Erin Polgreen / Talking Points Memo:
Hey, Media: Instead Of Lionizing Charlie Hebdo, Support The Artists You're Exploiting  —  The recent attack on Charlie Hebdo, a weekly satirical French newspaper featuring acerbic cartoons and comics, is shocking.  Twelve people are dead, 11 injured.  These attacks threaten the freedom of the press.
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Jack Shafer Joins Politico  —  NEW YORK — Media critic Jack Shafer is joining Politico to write a regular column on the press and politics as well as feature-length articles, according to a staff memo obtained by The Huffington Post.  —  Politico editor Susan Glasser described Shafer as …
BBC:
Saudi blogger Badawi ‘flogged for Islam insult’  —  A Saudi Arabian blogger has been publicly flogged after being convicted of cybercrime and insulting Islam, reports say.  —  Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail, was flogged 50 times.  The flogging will be carried out weekly, campaigners say.
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
One year in, The Information sticks to subscription model  —  In late 2013, former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin turned heads with the launch of The Information, a tech site that ditched ads for a $399 per year subscription.  —  The move was risky: Most publishers on the Web …
Discussion: @simonowens
David Friend / The Canadian Press:
Canada's Postmedia lost $10.3M in Q1, revenue down 12.6%, print ad sales dropped 20%, digital revenue up 3%  —  Postmedia losses narrow in first quarter  —  Falling print advertising revenues weighed heavily on the latest results from Postmedia Network Canada Corp. as the newspaper publisher reported …
Discussion: Castanet.net and j-source.ca
John Herrman / The Awl:
Facebook's latest post on video growth shows intent to demote publishers to producers, with uncertain benefits  —  Territory Annexed  —  Here is an update from Facebook about what “the shift to video”—that is, the sudden prevalence of auto-playing clips posted directly to the site—means to “creators.”
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Meet Shani Hilton, the youthful conscience of Buzzfeed News  —  Shani Hilton, who runs the day-to-day operations of Buzzfeed News, understands the trials and tribulations of growing a young news organization better than most.  —  Hilton got her start in journalism early, in the seventh grade …
Reuters:
Bloomberg News senior executive editor Laurie Hays departs  —  One of Bloomberg LP's top news executives, Laurie Hays, is leaving the company following a shake up of the financial information provider's newsroom leadership in December.  —  Hays is departing Bloomberg News under …
 
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