Mediagazer: Report: Netflix has 30M+ users from countries where the service is unavailable without VPN use (Alex Hern/Guardian)

11:30 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, Poynter, The Intercept, The Comics Reporter, SPLICETODAY.com, @emilynussbaum, The Huffington Post, @musezack, NetNewsCheck Latest, dallasmorningviewsblog …, Variety, @iamcuriousblue, Wall Street Journal and Forbes

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

Discussion: Guido Fawkes, Guardian and Spectator

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

Discussion: France 24, TechCrunch, Guardian and USA Today

Angeline Benoit / Bloomberg:
Algerian Offers to Buy Charlie Hebdo to Defend Freedom

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

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: Tubefilter, @mathewi and @pkafka

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: TechCrunch, The Verge, @howardlindzon, Business Insider, @yoreekoh, @pkafka, @digitalshields and @mikeisaac

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.

Discussion: @awastler, @justingraeber, Gigaom, @mathewi, @mathewi, @gaberivera, @nbj914, @zzzzaaaacccchhh, @johngapper, @abeaujon, @matthewkassel, @evanhughes, @nicknotned, @jonathanstray, @evaholland and @nullhappens

Alex Hern / Guardian:

Report: Netflix has 30M+ users from countries where the service is unavailable without VPN use — Why Netflix won't block VPN users - it has too many of them — Millions of people watch Netflix through VPNs from countries where it hasn't officially launched, new figures show

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

Andy Carvin / The Reported.ly Team:

Lessons from First Look's Reported.ly during the Charlie Hebdo story: needed more Facebook engagement, maybe a reddit live blog, and more recaps — Baptism By Fire: What We Learned Covering #CharlieHebdo On Our 3rd Day — “Place de la République, 18h50, une foule silencieuse” by JeSuisGodefroyTroude—Own work.

Discussion: @amstrategy, @nozzlsteve, @kimbui, @jcstearns, @macloo, @janjamm and @marynmck

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.

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, FishbowlNY, FishbowlDC, @bendwalsh and @felixsalmon

Philip Bump / Washington Post:

The NSA and the art of the Friday news dump — It is a Friday afternoon as I write this, and about an hour ago, the Director of National Intelligence published a report to its Tumblr page evaluating the over-classification of government documents. The intelligence community has a habit …

Discussion: @aaronblakewp

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.