Mediagazer: Charlie Hebdo sells out as 5 million print run is announced (Tony Todd/France 24)

1:00 PM ET, January 14, 2015

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Tony Todd / France 24:

Charlie Hebdo sells out as 5 million print run is announced — A defiant Charlie Hebdo went on sale Wednesday, in five languages and in more than 20 countries, splashing a cartoon purporting to be Mohammed on its front cover a week after jihadist gunmen stormed the satirical weekly's offices killing 12 people.

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

With New Charlie Hebdo Cover, News Value Should Have Prevailed — Readers responded passionately, and in large numbers, to my post last week about The Times's decision not to publish the now-famous Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. (In fact, I've never had more comments on a post or column.)

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New York Times:

Qaeda Group in Yemen Claims Responsibility for Charlie Hebdo Attack — PARIS — Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen formally claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the deadly assault a week ago at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people, saying that the target was chosen …

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

English-language digital edition of Charlie Hebdo available Thursday through app for €3, only 300 French print copies available in US — Only 300 copies of latest Charlie Hebdo issue available in U.S. — French cartoonist Renald Luzier holds up the new issue of Charlie Hebdo.

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Agence France-Presse:

French comedian Dieudonné arrested, accused of being an apologist for terrorism on Facebook — Dieudonné arrested over Facebook post on Paris gunman — French comedian accused of justifying terrorism after linking attacker to tribute slogan by writing ‘I feel like Charlie Coulibaly’

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France 24:

Police raid Turkish daily publishing Charlie Hebdo — Police raided the printing press of Turkish daily Cumhuriyet on Jan. 14, as it prepared to distribute a four-page selection of Charlie Hebdo's post-attack issue in an act of solidarity with the French satirical weekly.

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Suzan Fraser / Associated Press: Turkish Court Bans Websites Publishing Charlie Hebdo Cover

Alexandra Topping / Guardian:
With borrowed space and computers, Charlie Hebdo's staff produced a paper and vowed to continue

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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

Whisper editor in chief Neetzan Zimmerman has left following October suspension — Neetzan Zimmerman out at Whisper — Neetzan Zimmerman, who served as editor in chief of the secret-sharing app Whisper, has left the company, he confirmed to Capital. — Zimmerman, “and other staff members …

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Janet Asteroff / Mediashift:

A Progress Report on Jeff Bezos Transforming the Washington Post — If you don't like change, don't work at the Washington Post. — But if you are a consumer of digital news, you can expect some interesting and perhaps delightful innovations. And if you are in the news business …

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Wavelength Lets You Share Hollywood Movies With Your Friends, for Free, on the Web — At Least for Now — Hollywood's home movie sales and rentals business is shrinking. Spencer Wang says he has a solution: Make it easier for people to watch movies at home, without paying a penny.

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

Charlotte Observer experiment aimed at millennials publishes five stories/day, all at once, on separate site and in a newsletter — How do you get millennials to care about local news? The Charlotte Observer is testing out one idea — Every weekday at 7 a.m., the countdown clock atop …

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Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:

Dailymotion launches live-streaming gaming platform to compete with Twitch — Dailymotion today announced the launch of Dailymotion Games, a new live-streaming platform for gamers that is taking dead aim at the explosive success of Amazon's Twitch service. — Like Twitch, Dailymotion …

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Web TV Startup NimbleTV Stops Service, Promises to Relaunch — NimbleTV, a startup that let some cable TV customers stream their shows over the Web, shut down yesterday. It said it will re-launch later this year. — “We've decided to pause the NimbleTV service as it stands today …

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