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2:35 PM ET, January 11, 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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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.
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.
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)
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Charlie Hebdo Attack Chills Satirists and Prompts Debate
John Brownlee / Co.Design:
BuzzFeed hires Cap Watkins as its first vice president of design  —  BuzzFeed Tries To Get Serious About Design  —  THE PUBLISHING EMPIRE HAS HIRED FORMER ETSY DESIGNER CAP WATKINS AS ITS FIRST VP OF DESIGN.  When you think of BuzzFeed, you probably think of listicals of animated cat GIFs …
Discussion: @cap and Cap Watkins, Thanks:@steverubel
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 …
Discussion: Variety
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
Discussion: @mattzeitlin and @mattzeitlin
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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.
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!
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.
Discussion: @digiday
 
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