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11:50 AM ET, January 10, 2015

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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.
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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.
New York Times:
Police Storm Two Hostage Sites, Killing Charlie Hebdo Suspects
Angeline Benoit / Bloomberg:
Algerian Offers to Buy Charlie Hebdo to Defend Freedom
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Twitter mulling 6-second autoplay preview for promoted videos when appearing in users' feeds, charging advertiser only 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: @mathewi, @pkafka and Tubefilter
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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.
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.
Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
Medium launches Foreword, a weekly original video conversation series featuring authors and writers  —  Medium goes highbrow with its first original video series  —  Like most of the publishing world, platform-publisher hybrid Medium has started to produce original video.
Heidi Moore / Nieman Lab:
Reaching readers who don't use apps, alerts, social media but do want to get news presents a challenge  —  The readers we can't friend  —  When a story does well on Facebook or Twitter, it's become natural in a newsroom to fist-pump: Yeah!  Thousands of shares, hundreds of comments!
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
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.
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 …
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
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.
 
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Tom Kludt / CNN Money:
BBC scraps old guidance and runs image of Mohammed
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