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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
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Associated Press:
19K French websites targeted with minor denial-of-service attacks since Charlie Hebdo murders — 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 …
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VentureBeat, City A.M. and CTVNews
Dylan Byers / Politico:
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
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Vox, @sdkstl, Fox News, New York Times, ANIMAL, Poynter, World News Publishing Focus …, Hit & Run, CNNMoney.com, @jonathanmtucker, New York Magazine, The Wrap, @sulliview, @carlstwitt and @mlcalderone
Capital New York:
Natasha Vargas-Cooper out at The Intercept — Natasha Vargas-Cooper has resigned from The Intercept, Capital has learned. — Vargas-Cooper, a staff writer, clashed with the site's new editor in chief, Betsy Reed, especially over her interview with the lead prosecutor of the murder trial of Adnan Syed …
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Natasha VC, @emmacargo, @tmcgev, @r_bushey and The Intercept
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.
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Adweek, Gigaom, @sarahletrent and @amontalenti
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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Resource Magazine, StreetInsider.com, @dobsonagency, hypebot, @scotteells, @yunghi and The Shutterstock Blog
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, Reuters, Variety, TheStreet.com, VideoInk and The Next Web
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Time Inc.'s Video Portal Daily Cut Finally Goes Live — Last May, Time Inc. executives told potential online advertisers about plans to roll out Daily Cut, a centralized Web video destination for all of the company's brands. — Little did attendees at that presentation- made during the …
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@timeinc
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
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Tow Center receives new $3m funding for newsroom research — The Columbia University centre for digital journalism looks to explore automated reporting, metrics, and more after its latest round of funding — The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University is due to receive $3 million …
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Idea Lab
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
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
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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The Official Twitch Blog, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web and Engadget
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