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Dylan Byers / Politico:
If media avoids offending one religious group, it should avoid offending all religious groups — Does free media have an obligation to Islam? — In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, both America's paper of record (The New York Times) and its network of record (CNN) …
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New York Times, @dangillmor, @cerenomri and Agence France-Presse
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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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@byron_perry, @comradewong, @karenagardner, @sdkstl, @gennovefa, New York Magazine and Hit & Run
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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@jeremyscahill, The Intercept and KTLA
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Only Top U.S. Newspaper Not To Publish Charlie Hebdo Cover
France 24:
Police raid Turkish daily publishing Charlie Hebdo
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Guardian, Aljazeera, CNN, Guardian, NBC News, Associated Press and Al Jazeera English
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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Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
Max Mosley begins court action to stop Google showing pictures of sex party — Lawyers for former F1 racing boss argue that search engine is a publisher and is misusing private information — Max Mosley, the former head of Formula One racing, has begun a UK high court action to stop Google showing pictures of him at a sex party.
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BBC, Reuters, Daily Mail and Mirror.co.uk
Arno Schuetze / Reuters:
Nature magazine publisher to merge with Springer Science — The publisher of science magazines Nature and Scientific American is merging with private equity-owned peer Springer Science+Business Media, creating a group with 1.5 billion euros ($1.75 billion) in annual sales and 13,000 employees.
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Financial Times, London Evening Standard and Research Information
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Shutterstock snaps up U.K. press agency Rex Features for $33M to focus on editorial stock photos — Stock photo behemoth Shutterstock has acquired Rex Features, a photographic press agency based out of the U.K. — This move signals Shutterstock's intent to focus more on editorial imagery …
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The Shutterstock Blog
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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CNET, ABC News, Chinatopix, Guardian, Re/code, Associated Press, @gillianwong, Computerworld, 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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The Huffington Post, Business Insider, @triketora, TIME and VentureBeat
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.
Discussion:
Gigaom and @amontalenti
Angela Köckritz / Die Zeit:
A China correspondent describes her assistant's detention and how diplomatic efforts to secure her release have failed — They Have Miao — How my assistant got into trouble with Beijing's security apparatus and I got to know the Chinese authorities Zur deutschen Version Chinese Version Beijing Journal …
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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