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1:50 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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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.
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.
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 …
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
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 …
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.”
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: VentureBeat and 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
 
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Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
Medium launches Foreword, a weekly original video conversation series featuring authors and writers
Discussion: @digiday
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
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