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9:35 AM ET, January 15, 2015

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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.
Discussion: VentureBeat, City A.M. and CTVNews
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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) …
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 …
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
With New Charlie Hebdo Cover, News Value Should Have Prevailed
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Only Top U.S. Newspaper Not To Publish Charlie Hebdo Cover
Suzan Fraser / Associated Press:   Turkish Court Bans Websites Publishing Charlie Hebdo Cover
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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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
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: @jcstearns and Digiday
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.
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.
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.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Shutterstock takes aim at Getty as it snaps up U.K. press photo agency Rex Features for $33M  —  Stock photo behemoth Shutterstock has acquired Rex Features, a photographic press agency based out of the U.K, for $33 million.  Most of the transaction will be made in cash.
 
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Angela Köckritz / Die Zeit:
A China correspondent describes her assistant's detention and how diplomatic efforts to secure her release have failed
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Obama criticizes state laws that limit broadband competition, putting him at odds with major cable companies; industry group pushes back
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Washington Post:
Case of detained Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian is moved to Iran's Revolutionary Court; charges remain undisclosed
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Wavelength Lets You Share Hollywood Movies With Your Friends, for Free, on the Web — At Least for Now
Discussion: @pkafka and The Verge