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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.
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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the Prophet Mohammed on Thursday night, a move that flew in the face of editorial guidance that the network now says is outdated.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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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
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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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” …
Erin Polgreen / Talking Points Memo:
Hey, Media: Instead Of Lionizing Charlie Hebdo, Support The Artists You're Exploiting
Hey, Media: Instead Of Lionizing Charlie Hebdo, Support The Artists You're Exploiting
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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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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 …
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Meet Shani Hilton, the youthful conscience of Buzzfeed News
Meet Shani Hilton, the youthful conscience of Buzzfeed News
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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 …
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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.
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AdAge, @mikeisaac, @yoreekoh, @digitalshields, @pkafka and @pkafka
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.
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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.
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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