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Associated Press:
France faces 19,000 cyberattacks since terror rampage — PARIS (AP) — Hackers have targeted about 19,000 French websites since a rampage by Islamic extremists left 20 dead last week, France's cyberdefense official said Thursday, as the president tried to calm the nation's inflamed religious tensions.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Why grant anonymity to a terrorist? Jeremy Scahill explains. — Big media outlets today are busy reporting the news that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has taken responsibility for last week's Charlie Hebdo attack. A video released by this branch of al-Qaeda is authentic …
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CNN, @jeremyscahill, Mashable, The Week, New York Magazine, The Intercept and KTLA
Dylan Byers / Politico:
If media avoids offending one religious group, it should avoid offending all religious groups
If media avoids offending one religious group, it should avoid offending all religious groups
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New York Times, @cerenomri, @dangillmor, Hit & Run and Agence France-Presse
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Only Top U.S. Newspaper Not To Publish Charlie Hebdo Cover
New York Times Only Top U.S. Newspaper Not To Publish Charlie Hebdo Cover
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Vox, @sdkstl, Fox News, New York Times, ANIMAL, Poynter, World News Publishing Focus …, CNNMoney.com, Hit & Run, @jonathanmtucker, @sulliview, New York Magazine, The Wrap, @carlstwitt and @mlcalderone
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
News organizations ‘pleased’ with updated D.O.J. media guidelines — News organizations welcomed the U.S. Department of Justice's updated guidelines, released Wednesday, on how the government can obtain records and other information from media outlets during leak investigations.
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Josh Dickey / Mashable:
Vimeo to fund Maker Studios creators in exchange for exclusive windows — LOS ANGELES — Vimeo has agreed to fund and distribute content in exclusive windows from creators at Disney-owned Maker Studios, yet another challenge to YouTube's position as the go-to platform for first-run online video, Mashable has learned.
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The Wrap, Deadline, Variety, Reuters, TheStreet.com, The Next Web and VideoInk
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Q&A: Amy O'Leary on eight years of navigating digital culture change at The New York Times — When Amy O'Leary announced in early January that she was leaving The New York Times to become editorial director at Upworthy, there was a collective jaw-drop in the digital journalism community.
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Adweek, Gigaom and @amontalenti
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Rdio Becomes The First Global Music Streaming Service To Launch In India — India has welcomed the first international music streaming service to its shores after Rdio, the San Francisco based company, launched in the country. — Rdio's arrival in India has been expected for some time since …
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The Next Web
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Twitch launches free music library for video game streamers — Game streaming platform Twitch is trying to solve a problem that has plagued it for months: how can you enforce copyright laws without limiting what players can do on the service? Today, the Amazon-owned company is launching …
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Official Twitch Blog, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web and Engadget
Loek Essers / PC World:
EC balks at planned joint venture from large music licensing companies — Online music could become more expensive in the European Union (EU) if a joint venture of licensing companies gets the green light, according to the European Commission, which started an in-depth investigation into the planned collaboration on Wednesday.
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Music Week, globaltimes.cn, Reuters and Music Business Worldwide
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
NBC's Breaking News iOS app adds video from NBC and its citizen journalism app Stringwire — NBC's Breaking News app hopes to hook you with live video — From Flipboard to Circa, there's no shortage of news aggregation apps out there, designed to deliver alerts to your phone the second news breaks.
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@jcstearns and Digiday
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks plans to launch video-on-demand service CuriosityStream in March, for $2.99 to $9.99/month — Discovery Channel Founder Jumps Into Video Stream — John Hendricks Says Netflix's Success Means ‘the Timing Is Right’
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Rapid TV News, Deadline, Variety, Multichannel News, Hollywood Reporter and Press Release Rocket
David Carr / New York Times:
Flocking to Buy Charlie Hebdo, Citizens Signal Their Support of Free Speech — For people who are supporters of not just free speech but newspapers, too, the images of Parisians queued up at dawn Wednesday to get their hands on a printed artifact was heartening.
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CNNMoney.com, Vox, @byron_perry, @comradewong, @karenagardner, @sdkstl, @gennovefa, New York Magazine and Hit & Run
Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:
Zuckerberg defends Facebook's practice of operating in countries that restrict free speech — Facebook Walks a Free-Speech Tightrope — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg walked a free-speech tightrope Wednesday in an hour-long, town hall-style Q&A in Bogota, Colombia.
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Guardian, Re/code, CNET, ABC News, @gillianwong, Computerworld, Chinatopix, Associated Press, Gigaom and TechCrunch
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
MySpace says it reached 50.6M unique users in US in November, 575% over same month in 2013, and generated over 300M video views — MySpace Still Reaches 50 Million People Each Month — Did you know that 50 million people still visit MySpace each month? — Would you be surprised …
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MediaPost, The Huffington Post, @wsjd, Business Insider, @triketora, TIME and VentureBeat