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8:35 AM ET, January 12, 2015

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Deborah Cole / Agence France-Presse:
Firebombing at German paper that ran Charlie Hebdo cartoons  —  Berlin (AFP) - A German tabloid that reprinted cartoons from the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo lampooning the Prophet Mohammed was targeted in firebombing Sunday, police said.  —  With security services on high alert …
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Paris March Against Terror Draws Huge Crowds and 40 World Leaders  —  PARIS — Hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets of Paris to join top French officials and world leaders for a rally and march under extraordinary security in a government-sponsored show of unity and defiance after a series of terrorist attacks.
Teju Cole / New Yorker:
Free speech and liberty were already in crisis before the assault on France's Charlie Hebdo  —  Unmournable Bodies  —  A northern-Italian miller in the sixteenth century, known as Menocchio, literate but not a member of the literary élite, held a number of unconventional theological beliefs.
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Charlie Hebdo Attack Chills Satirists and Prompts Debate
New York Times:
Pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones leaves The New Yorker to join Genius as an executive editor focusing on annotation of lyrics  —  Pop Music Critic Leaves The New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics for a Start-Up  —  Sasha Frere-Jones, the longtime pop music critic for The New Yorker …
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Amazon, Netflix Win Big At The Golden Globes  —  Last year, Amazon wasn't even included in the Golden Globes.  Netflix took home one of five nominations with the help of Robin Wright from House Of Cards.  —  This year, both companies are walking away winners.
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George Sandeman / Guardian:
Oxford Mail's WhatsApp news service tops 1,200 subscribers after six months  —  Chat app gets more click on story links than email or Twitter services, according to paper's head of content  —  The Oxford Mail claims its experiment with mobile messaging service WhatsApp has shown …
Michelle Castillo / Adweek:
Amid tensions with Omidyar, The Intercept wants to ditch its non-profit status  —  The Intercept Found Serial's Elusive Jay, But Can It Find a Profitable Future?  —  Investigative site could drop its nonprofit status by year's end  —  Last month, The Intercept scored an exclusive interview with Jay …
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
The looming threat of newsroom cyber attacks  —  Recent attacks on the Albuquerque Journal and WBOC reveal the importance of digital security  —  Around 11am on Tuesday, journalists at the Maryland CBS affiliate WBOC noticed that their Twitter password had been changed.
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Unseen forces: NPR looks to build a broader digital audience with its new show Invisibilia  —  The story of NPR's new show Invisibilia starts with a butcher knife.  —  Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller were taking a walk during some downtime at the Third Coast Conference and …
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Three From The New Republic Join The Huffington Post  —  Three former senior staff members at The New Republic, who were part of a mass exodus at the magazine late last year, have joined The Huffington Post.  —  The editors Greg Veis and Rachel Morris, and a writer, Jonathan Cohn …
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Hyperlocal Brixton Blog crowdfunds new editor  —  Hyperlocal media outlet Brixton Blog and Bugle hired its first paid editor this week after successfully completing a crowdfunding campaign raising £15,000 in December to pay for the position.  Former freelance journalist Anna McKie joined …
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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
 
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