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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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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 …
Brendan Bordelon / National Review:
‘I AM NOT CHARLIE’: Leaked Newsroom Emails Reveal Al Jazeera Fury over Global Support for Charlie Hebdo — As journalists worldwide reacted with universal revulsion at the massacre of some of their own by Islamic jihadists in Paris, Al Jazeera English editor and executive producer Salah-Aldeen Khadr sent out a staff-wide email.
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Tom Kent / The Definitive Source:
Why AP didn't run the Charlie Hebdo cartoons — In this Sept.19, 2012 file photo, Stephane Charbonnier, the editor of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, displays a front page of the newspaper as he poses for photographers in Paris. AP moved this image on the wire this week. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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New York Times:
Police Storm Two Hostage Sites, Killing Charlie Hebdo Suspects
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Charlie Hebdo to publish ‘Le journal des survivants’ on 14 January
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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
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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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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Hyperlocal Brixton Blog crowdfunds new editor — Founding editor Zoë Jewell shares her plans for more news coverage and investigations after 5 years of Brixton Blog, and advice for crowdfunding as a local outlet — Credit: By Mike on Flickr. Some rights reserved
NetNewsCheck:
Broadcasters and Arizona's Cronkite School of Journalism team up for special report on heroin Jan. 13 — ASU Heroin Doc To Run Across Az. Media — Every broadcast television station across Arizona and most of the state's radio outlets will broadcast a commerical-free …
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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
In October, bankers proposed spinning out Sony Pictures for a merger with AMC Networks, hacked emails show — A Rare Look Inside The Sausage Factory Of Media Consolidation — Modern media is dominated by a handful of giants, each with Byzantine internal structures. Here's why. — Ursula Coyote / AMC
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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!
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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.
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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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