Mediagazer: Most of The New York Times' most popular items last year weren't news stories (Benjamin Mullin/Poynter)

7:30 PM ET, January 12, 2015

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Henry Samuel / Telegraph:

Charlie Hebdo's Wednesday edition to include Prophet Mohammed cartoons — Wednesday's edition of Charlie Hebdo will ‘naturally’ contain cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, the magazine's lawyer has announced — The next edition of Charlie Hebdo, out on Wednesday with a million-copy print run …

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Sophie Louet / Reuters:

First print run of this week's Charlie Hebdo will be 1M copies, compared to normal 60K; 2M more possible — Charlie Hebdo print run could hit three million after attack — (Reuters) - Up to 3 million copies of Charlie Hebdo could hit newsstands this week, dwarfing its usual print run of 60,000 …

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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Editors must not let Charlie Hebdo's fate influence their editorial stance

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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.

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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

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

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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.

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Most of The New York Times' most popular items last year weren't news stories — The New York Times — Last year's most popular item in The New York Times was this interactive, an image gallery of sorts that showed the photographic evolution of four sisters over 40 years.

Discussion: @bydanielvictor, @benmullin, @cwarzel and The New York Times Company

Josh Felser / Re/code:

Founder of Grouper, now Crackle, tells the story of the company from founding to sale to Sony — The True Story of Grouper, a.k.a. Crackle — Sony's effort to release “The Interview” on the Web last month ended up shining a spotlight on Crackle, the company's streaming video service.

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Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:

CNN Strikes Deal With FAA to Integrate Drones Into Aviation Reporting — CNN and the Federal Aviation Administration have signed an agreement to integrate drones into news gathering and reporting, the two organizations announced Monday. — The agreement will provide the FAA …

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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Daily Mail Buys Full-Page Times Ad to Promote Automated Ad Sales — Offers Free Dollar in Programmatic Ads for Each Dollar Spent Directly — TV and Technology — The DailyMail.com ran a full-page ad in The New York Times on Monday to promote its automated ad sales in the U.S. …

Daniel Menaker / Slate:

Longtime book editor Daniel Menaker on Amazon, Authors United, and the future of publishing — One day about three years after I'd left the New Yorker to become a book editor, Alberto Vitale—former CEO of Random House, Inc., a genial, intelligent, and remarkably tan businessman …

Michael Kupperman / The Hooded Utilitarian:

How meddling editors and fear of offense forced a comic book artist to stop working with the NYT — My NYT Nightmare — Just under a year ago, I started a new gig that I was cautiously excited about: creating editorial comics for the Week in Review section of The New York Times.

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Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Prosecutors now want to exclude NYT reporter James Risen from any appearance at CIA leak trial — Feds want Risen out of leak trial — Federal prosecutors who have decided after a seven-year legal battle not to call New York Times reporter James Risen in the leak trial of one of his alleged sources …