Mediagazer: Al Jazeera America Schedule In Flux After Network Cancels Programs (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

11:50 AM 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.

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

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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

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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 — 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.

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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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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 …

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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

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

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

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: Search Engine Land and @dangillmor

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 …

Discussion: Poynter, @sarahkliff, @theplumlinegs, @markfollman, @zengerle, @profamycohn, @hillarykelly, @stevebenen, @mlcalderone, @samsteinhp and @jonathanchait

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 …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Spotify Now Has 15M Paying Users, 60M Overall Active Subscribers — Spotify, the music streaming service that is tipped to be soon in line for an IPO, has today announced that it now has 15 million paying users, and 60 million subscribers overall. To put this into some context, two months ago …

Discussion: Spotify Blog, USA Today, hypebot and Forbes