Mediagazer: Oxford Mail's WhatsApp news service tops 1,200 subscribers after six months (George Sandeman/Guardian)

12:10 PM ET, January 12, 2015

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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 …

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Editors must not let Charlie Hebdo's fate influence their editorial stance — Fear is not an editorial option — Anglo-saxon media that refused to publish religious caricatures should revise their position. This is the worst time to surrender to self-censorship and politically correctness.

Discussion: The Week, Mashable and NPR

New York Times:
Paris March Against Terror Draws Huge Crowds and 40 World Leaders

Discussion: New York Times, Reporters Without Borders, Telegraph, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, sputniknews.com, Jerusalem Post, Hollywood Reporter, Guardian, BBC, Agence France-Presse, Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Week and Mediaite

Teju Cole / New Yorker:
Free speech and liberty were already in crisis before the assault on France's Charlie Hebdo

Brendan Bordelon / National Review:
‘I AM NOT CHARLIE’: Leaked Newsroom Emails Reveal Al Jazeera Fury over Global Support for Charlie Hebdo

Discussion: Mediaite, BuzzFeed, The Week, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post

Tom Kent / The Definitive Source:
Why AP didn't run the Charlie Hebdo cartoons

Discussion: Poynter, @sulliview, @ron_fournier, New York Times and National Journal

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Amazon, Netflix Win Big At The Golden Globes — Last year, Amazon wasn't even included in the Golden Globes. Netflix took home one of five nominations with the help of Robin Wright from House Of Cards. — This year, both companies are walking away winners.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, The New York Observer, VatorNews and The Wrap

Adam Flomenbaum / Lost Remote:

The Golden Globes on Twitter: 2.6 Million Tweets is 24% Increase Year Over Year — Last night's Golden Globes drove 2.6 million tweets between 8pm EST and 11pm EST - a 24% increase compared to last year. — Twitter's Head of TV, Andrew Adashek, detailed the highlights in a blog post after the event.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, GalleyCat, SocialTimes and The Twitter Blog

Colin Lecher / The Verge:
“Transparent” wins Golden Globe for best TV comedy, the first major award for an Amazon show

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, CNET, @joshsternberg, @carr2n, @janewells, @delrey, @jonerlichman, GeekWire and Business Insider

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 …

Discussion: @mhess4, @mrb_bk, @_akpiper, @samfbiddle, @peterlattman, @triplejmornings, Gawker, PandoDaily, @seeglazek, @mitrakalita, TechCrunch, @kia_mak, @cwarzel, @alexismadrigal, @nytfridge, @bhorowitz, @monkbent, The Verge, FishbowlNY and New York Magazine

Michelle Castillo / Adweek:

Amid tensions with Omidyar, The Intercept wants to ditch its non-profit status — The Intercept Found Serial's Elusive Jay, But Can It Find a Profitable Future? — Investigative site could drop its nonprofit status by year's end — Last month, The Intercept scored an exclusive interview with Jay …

Discussion: @nbj914 and @mathewi

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Chilling Effects, a site tracking DMCA removal requests, pulls its copyright removal notice pages from search engines — Chilling Effects DMCA Archive Censors Itself — On an average day Google now processes more than a million takedown requests from copyright holders, and that's for its search engine alone.

Discussion: @mathewi, Search Engine Land and @dangillmor

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 …

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Al Jazeera America Schedule In Flux After Network Cancels Programs — Al Jazeera America launched with the noble mission of providing in-depth news to a cable populace inundated with fast bits of information and a surfeit of talking heads, but putting transforming its goals into practice is proving more difficult.

Discussion: TVNewser and New York Post

Max Read / Gawker:

Gawker splits site into verticals, adds sections for politics, media, news and more — How to Read Gawker in 2015 — Hi there. We're trying something new out for the new year, which means Gawker's going to be publishing things a little differently. Let me explain.

David Folkenflik / NPR:

NPR Appoints Longtime Print Reporter As New Ombudsman — NPR CEO Jarl Mohn today named veteran print reporter Elizabeth Jensen as the public radio network's fifth ombudsman. — “I think the primary responsibility is to report the concerns of NPR's listeners and to show NPR's journalism is …

Discussion: Poynter, @vivian and @sree

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 …