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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 …
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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the Prophet Mohammed on Thursday night, a move that flew in the face of editorial guidance that the network now says is outdated.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” …
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Guardian, Guido Fawkes, Spectator and FishbowlDC
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Charlie Hebdo to publish ‘Le journal des survivants’ on 14 January — Surviving staff hold first meeting since terrorist attack, as French government and companies including Vivendi, Publicis and Canal+ pledge financial support — Charlie Hebdo plans to publish a “journal des survivants” …
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The Huffington Post, Poynter, Guardian and USA Today
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.
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Guardian, @toophyk, VICE, @devonpendleton, @ej_fournier, The Week, Journalism.co.uk, Tech Times, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, GalleyCat, Hit & Run, BillMoyers.com, TechCrunch, Magforum and New York Times
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
Guardian:
Guardian Media Group pledges £100,000 to sustain Charlie Hebdo's publication, sees no need to publish its cartoons
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Guardian, @ap, Gawker, The Daily Freeman, Gawker, Rolling Stone, Bleeding Cool Comic Book …, Globe and Mail, TVNewser, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Fast Company, Associated Press, Vox, @moorehn, @tomjanmeeus, Weekly Standard, Justin Erik Halldór Smith, The Intercept, Business Insider, a paper bird, @grrlscientist, bookforum.com, Wall Street Journal, @benjilanyado, @arusbridger, @yusufomarsa, @thebuddhasmiled, @holland_tom, @stcolumbia, @jeffjarvis, @emilyhwilson, Digital Spy, @oliverburkeman, @davebry9, @ranaayyub, @arusbridger, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post
Erin Polgreen / Talking Points Memo:
Hey, Media: Instead Of Lionizing Charlie Hebdo, Support The Artists You're Exploiting
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@collier, Slate, @tpm, Medium, @law99tech, @polgreen, @polgreen, @flyingtrilobite, @mattbors, @kaysteiger, @tigerbeat and @kimbui
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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@nbj914, @gaberivera, @abeaujon, @matthewkassel, @evanhughes, @nicknotned, @jonathanstray, @justingraeber, @awastler, @evaholland, @nullhappens, @mathewi and @mathewi
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 …
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Poynter, The Buttry Diary, @jackshafer, FishbowlDC, FishbowlNY, @bendwalsh and @felixsalmon
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger:
Sources: Yahoo shutting down Right Media ad exchange for non-Yahoo owned networks and publishers — Yahoo Finally Pulls The Plug On Right Media Exchange — Most would argue that Yahoo's de facto policy on the Right Media Exchange had been “do not resuscitate” for quite some time - but now RMX is officially off life support.
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@dvanhalsema and @joreyramer
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 …
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@rafat, @digiday and @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 …
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Castanet.net and j-source.ca
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.
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@earthtoreform, The Independent, Middle East, Reuters, Associated Press, Al Bawaba and International Business Times
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 Wrap, FishbowlDC, @thestalwart, The Huffington Post and Politico
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.
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