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Susie Cagle / Pacific Standard:
Tech companies support free speech only when it doesn't endanger their ability to make a profit — Do Tech Companies Really Support Free Speech? — “Freedom of speech” has perhaps never looked so confused. — In the days immediately following a massacre at French comics magazine Charlie Hebdo …
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@susie_c, Gigaom, @sydell and @catekustanczy
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Alexandra Topping / Guardian:
With borrowed space and computers, Charlie Hebdo's staff produced a paper and vowed to continue — Charlie Hebdo's new edition ‘made with joy as well as pain’ — Editor-in-chief and cartoonist describe process of putting together latest edition of satirical magazine
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Associated Press:
Despite free speech protests, French authorities investigating comedian Dieudonné for offensive remark
Despite free speech protests, French authorities investigating comedian Dieudonné for offensive remark
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Guardian, @ggreenwald, @lex_looper and @epic_morphism
Austin Hunt / BuzzFeed:
Here's Who Is And Isn't Publishing The New Charlie Hebdo Cover Image
Here's Who Is And Isn't Publishing The New Charlie Hebdo Cover Image
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Guardian, Flatworld, Mashable, Mother Jones, Yahoo! News, Hit & Run, Talking Points Memo, BillMoyers.com, @mattwelch, @tomgara, Poynter, @passantino, @mlcalderone, @miriamelder and mUmBRELLA
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Charlie Hebdo's Wednesday edition to include Prophet Mohammed cartoons
Charlie Hebdo's Wednesday edition to include Prophet Mohammed cartoons
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USA Today, New York Times, Adweek, Reuters, Poynter, @szanajafi, @ericuman, @imbimallick, @raju, @mirandachale, Wall Street Journal, The Dish, CNNMoney.com, Gawker, Latest News & Headlines, The Huffington Post and Guardian
Emily Smith / Page Six:
‘Unhappy’ Ann Curry finally leaves NBC — Ann Curry's tearful exit from “Today” opposite Matt Lauer. — Ann Curry is finally leaving NBC over two and a half years after her excruciating departure from “Today,” Page Six can exclusively reveal. — NBC is expected to imminently announce …
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Adweek, Variety, The Huffington Post, The Wrap, Mediaite, Capital New York, Broadcasting & Cable, Hollywood Reporter, @farhip and The Week
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Publisher Macmillan Signs On With E-Book Subscription Services Oyster And Scribd — Macmillan, one of the “Big Five” book publishers in the United States, is making its titles available on subscription e-book services Oyster and Scribd, starting today. — The news isn't exactly a surprise …
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Mediashift, Publishers Weekly, VentureBeat, Bookseller News, Gigaom, Digital Book World and Mashable
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
By refusing to compete with sites like Business Insider for ad dollars, Quartz hopes to build a profitable news business — Quartz's Digital Media Strategy Begins to Crystallize — When Atlantic Media introduced business-news publication Quartz in September 2012, it spent about $10 million on the launch …
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@raju, @miamabanta, @kevinjdelaney, @zseward, @nwquah, @msebastian, @mhbergen, @jayrosen_nyu and @marklittlenews
Knight Foundation:
Columbia University's Tow Center gets $3M Knight grant to fund newsroom innovation research — Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism to foster news innovation with $3 million in new support from Knight Foundation — Recruitment for new Knight News Innovation Fellows begins this month
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@rosental, @knightfdn, @susanemcg, @emilybell and @towcenter
Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:
Neil Young's PonoPlayer promises high-res audio, but with no discernible sound improvement and massive file sizes, it's not worth the $400 price tag — Don't Buy What Neil Young Is Selling — Neil Young's “high resolution” PonoPlayer goes on sale for $400 today. You shouldn't buy it.
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Business Insider, RAIN News, @harrymccracken, New York Post, @jyarow, @mathewi, @scottgum, @stevesilberman, @edbott, @splitsurround and hypebot
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Al Jazeera initially pulled interview with French National Front leader Marine Le Pen because she critcised Qatar — Al Jazeera Runs Interview With French Far-Right Leader After Accusations Of Censorship — Marine Le Pen criticized Qatar, which owns the channel, leading editors to pull the interview, sources said.
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@miriamelder, New York Times, Mediaite, Mashable, NPR, @jo_bouk, Talking Points Memo and The Week
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
A.J. Daulerio's ‘Ratter’ has raised more than a million — Ratter, a network of city-specific news sites, raised between $1.1 million and $1.2 million in a fundraising round that ended Oct. 15, founder A.J. Daulerio told Capital. — The site has received funding from Gawker Media C.E.O. Nick Denton …
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AdAge and @ratterofficial
Business Wire:
Adweek Integrates Mediabistro Editorial Properties to Form the Adweek Blog Network — With migration of nine popular industry blogs, Adweek bolsters its coverage of marketing, advertising, public relations and social media; Mediabistro to focus exclusively on professional development and recruitment services
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Adweek, Adweek, @sarahw, @laurahazardowen, @flobombin and @joshsternberg
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Washington Post Folds Storyline into Wonkblog — A rare contraction in the ever-expanding Bezos era. — The Washington Post will combine Storyline, a data-driven storytelling site it launched last July, with Wonkblog. Both verticals cover public policy.
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@rachel_sadon, @washingtonian and @abeaujon
Christopher Massie / Columbia Journalism Review:
Former blogger Brown Moses is trying to build his own type of investigative news operation — Former blogger Brown Moses is trying to build his own type of investigative news operation — In November 2013, The New Yorker's Patrick Radden Keefe called Eliot Higgins, an unemployed man from Leicester …
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@checkdesk and @futureofmedia
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Digital-Video Startup Whistle Sports Raises $28M from Emil Capital, Sky, Liberty Global, Derek Jeter and Peyton Manning — Whistle Sports Network, which distributes video content aimed at millennial sports fans across 225 YouTube channels and social networks, announced that it has raised $28 million in Series B financing.
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Quartz, Re/code, Business Wire, Deadline, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and @waynekimmel