Mediagazer: Danish newspaper that published prophet Muhammad cartoons in 2005 won't reprint Charlie Hebdo cartoons on concerns for staff safety (Lene Bech Sillesen/Columbia Journalism …)

3:40 PM ET, January 9, 2015

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Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:

An Attack Chills Satirists and Prompts Debate — The killing of a dozen people in Wednesday's attack on the French satirical magazine 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: SPLICETODAY.com, NetNewsCheck Latest, @emilynussbaum, @musezack, @iamcuriousblue, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, The Comics Reporter, Variety and MediaNama

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the Prophet Mohammed on Thursday night, a move that flew in the face of editorial guidance that the network now says is outdated.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 FishbowlDC

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, @cjr, Reuters and NBC News

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” …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, PandoDaily, 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.

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

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

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Guardian:
Guardian Media Group pledges £100,000 to sustain Charlie Hebdo's publication, sees no need to publish its cartoons

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, @bendwalsh, FishbowlNY 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.

Discussion: @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 …

Discussion: @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 …

Discussion: 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.