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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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New York Times:
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.
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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
Why AP didn't run the Charlie Hebdo cartoons
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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
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 …
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Colin Lecher / The Verge:
“Transparent” wins Golden Globe for best TV comedy, the first major award for an Amazon show — Amazon's ‘Transparent’ wins Golden Globe for best TV comedy or musical — The winner of the Golden Globe award for best television comedy or musical is Amazon's “Transparent.”
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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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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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