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12:35 PM 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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New York Times:
Police Storm Two Hostage Sites, Killing Charlie Hebdo Suspects  —  PARIS — French police on Friday killed the two brothers suspected of murdering 12 people at a Paris newspaper on Wednesday and freed his hostage unharmed, the authorities said.  The police launched a simultaneous raid …
Angeline Benoit / Bloomberg:
Algerian Offers to Buy Charlie Hebdo to Defend Freedom  —  Rachid Nekkaz gave up French citizenship, put off by what he sees as the nation's anti-Muslim policies.  Now his attachment to the country's values is prompting him to offer to invest in Charlie Hebdo, the satirical weekly ravaged by an Islamist massacre this week.
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.
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.
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 …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
London Evening Standard to cut more than a dozen editorial roles  —  Managing editor apologises for unfortunately-timed email about redundancies reaching staff as they returned from Charlie Hebdo church service  —  The London Evening Standard is axing more than a dozen editorial roles, affecting a number of veteran senior staff.
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
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.
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
 
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