Mediagazer: San Francisco Bay Guardian to publish a commemorative edition next week (Jim Romenesko)

8:55 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 …

Discussion: AlterNet.org

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

Discussion: mUmBRELLA, Poynter, The Week, Hollywood Reporter and Mashable

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.

Discussion: Nieman Lab, @barjack, @msebastian, @jayrosen_nyu, @brizzyc, @chrismegerian, @tcarmody, @max_read, @laceydonohue, @barryap1 and @jeremymbarr

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

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.

Discussion: Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Inside TV, Hollywood Reporter, Guardian, Salon, Deadline, NY Daily News, Reuters, Mashable, Washington Post and Rolling Stone

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

Adam Flomenbaum / Lost Remote:
The Golden Globes on Twitter: 2.6 Million Tweets is 24% Increase Year Over Year

Discussion: FishbowlNY, GalleyCat and The Twitter Blog

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.

Discussion: @joshmedia and @joshelman

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 …

Discussion: Politico, CNN, CNNMoney.com, TVNewser, Deadline, Associated Press and Broadcasting & Cable

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. …

Jim Romenesko:

San Francisco Bay Guardian to publish a commemorative edition next week — The 48-year-old San Francisco Bay Guardian was abruptly closed in October, a day before its “Best of the Bay” issue hit the streets. Three months later, staffers are putting out a final issue, which they're calling the …

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.

Discussion: @splinister, @lehmannchris, @karenmcgrane, @losowsky, @hoodedu, @peterfhart and The Wrap

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 …