Mediagazer: Gawker to focus less on viral traffic, limit bonus to writers whose posts editor and colleagues deem worthy (Nick Denton/Gawker)

7:05 PM ET, January 9, 2015

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Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:

Charlie Hebdo Attack Chills Satirists and Prompts Debate — The killing of a dozen people in Wednesday's attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has prompted an outpouring of tributes from cartoonists around the world, who have flooded the Internet with images ranging from the elegiac to the scabrously rude.

Discussion: Guardian, THE DEFINITIVE SOURCE, The Huffington Post, Poynter, The Intercept, Guardian, The Comics Reporter, SPLICETODAY.com, @musezack, Variety, dallasmorningviewsblog …, NetNewsCheck Latest, @emilynussbaum, Wall Street Journal and @iamcuriousblue

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 …

Tom Kludt / CNN Money:

BBC scraps old guidance and runs image of Mohammed — The BBC ran Charlie Hebdo's controversial depiction of the Prophet Mohammed on Thursday night, a move that flew in the face of editorial guidance that the network now says is outdated. — The images ran on the BBC's “Ten O'Clock News” …

Discussion: Guido Fawkes, Guardian, Spectator and TVNewser

Lene Bech Sillesen / Columbia Journalism Review:

Danish newspaper that published prophet Muhammad cartoons in 2005 won't reprint Charlie Hebdo cartoons on concerns for staff safety — Why a Danish newspaper won't publish the Charlie Hebdo cartoons — After numerous terror threats, editors chose to play it safe

Discussion: Aljazeera, The Local, NBC News, Reuters, @cjr and Vox

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.

Discussion: Slate, @devonpendleton, VICE, @toophyk, @ej_fournier, The Huffington Post, Guardian, The Week, Journalism.co.uk, 9to5Mac, GalleyCat, Hit & Run, BillMoyers.com, The Next Web, Tech Times, TechCrunch, New York Times and Guardian

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Charlie Hebdo to publish ‘Le journal des survivants’ on 14 January

Discussion: TechCrunch, Mediaite, Guardian and USA Today

Erin Polgreen / Talking Points Memo:
Hey, Media: Instead Of Lionizing Charlie Hebdo, Support The Artists You're Exploiting

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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter plans to sell ads in streams of tweets on other publishers' apps and websites, share revenue — Twitter Planning to Sell Ads on Apps and Sites of Other Companies — Twitter is laying out plans to make money from the millions of people who see tweets all over the Web but don't actually use Twitter.

Discussion: Business Insider, @mikeisaac, @yoreekoh, @digitalshields and @pkafka

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Twitter mulling 6-second autoplay preview for promoted videos when appearing in users' feeds, charging advertiser on when people click to watch full video — Twitter's Video Plans Include Autoplay Ad Previews — Advertisers Would Only Pay If People Click to Play — Mobile Marketing That Works

Discussion: @pkafka, Tubefilter and @mathewi

Nick Denton / Gawker:

Gawker to focus less on viral traffic, limit bonus to writers whose posts editor and colleagues deem worthy — What is to be done? — Gawker's new editorial supremo has replaced the traffic chart that used to greet visitors to the Fourth Floor, the library-like space in the company's headquarters on Elizabeth Street.

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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 …

Discussion: Poynter, @jackshafer, The Buttry Diary, FishbowlDC, FishbowlNY, @bendwalsh and @felixsalmon

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Guardian re-orgs U.S. newsroom as U.K. braces for new E.I.C. — Guardian U.S. editor Katharine Viner has restructured her newsroom ahead of a planned expansion in 2015. — Included in the shuffle are Matt Sullivan, who leaves the site's opinion vertical to become deputy head of news …

Discussion: @megancarpentier, @sullduggery and @thrasherxy

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Maggie Haberman leaves huge hole at Politico, moves to New York Times — Politico eminence Maggie Haberman just announced her departure for the New York Times: … As reported previously in this space, Politico has been shedding staffers at a stunning rate — about 25 percent of its people left over the course of 2014.

Discussion: Capital New York, The Daily Caller, NY State of Politics, @thestalwart, The Huffington Post, FishbowlDC, The Wrap and Politico

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Parade in no rush to add papers in wake of USA Weekend's end — Big changes are afoot in the Sunday magazine market, but the lone survivor, Nashville-based Athlon Media Group, the new owner of Parade, is in no rush to add papers to its roster now that USA Weekend has gone kaput.