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1:45 PM ET, January 12, 2015

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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.
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Adam Flomenbaum / Lost Remote:
The Golden Globes on Twitter: 2.6 Million Tweets is 24% Increase Year Over Year
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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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.
New York Times:
Paris March Against Terror Draws Huge Crowds and 40 World Leaders
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 …
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Stephen Colbert's ‘Late Show’ will debut Sept. 8  —  “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” will debut Tuesday, Sept. 8, CBS said in an announcement Monday morning at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif.  —  Colbert will replace David Letterman, who will host his last “Late Show” on May 20, 2015.
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
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
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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 …
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
The looming threat of newsroom cyber attacks  —  Recent attacks on the Albuquerque Journal and WBOC reveal the importance of digital security  —  Around 11am on Tuesday, journalists at the Maryland CBS affiliate WBOC noticed that their Twitter password had been changed.
Discussion: SC Magazine
 
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