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11:25 AM ET, January 16, 2015

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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
F.B.I. Chief Criticizes Times on Qaeda Source  —  WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, sharply criticized The New York Times on Thursday for anonymously quoting a member of a terrorist group in an article about the deadly attacks last week in France.
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Testimony from former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice sheds light on how US government pressures journalists to withhold security stories  —  Condoleezza Rice Testifies on Urging The Times to Not Run Article  —  WASHINGTON — White House officials favor two primary tactics …
Agence France-Presse:
AFP photographer shot at Pakistan anti-Charlie Hebdo protest  —  AFP photographer Asif Hassan was shot and seriously injured Friday while covering an anti-Charlie Hebdo protest by religious party activists outside the French consulate in Karachi, but was out of immediate danger following surgery.
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France 24:
Charlie Hebdo protesters clash with police near French consulate in Karachi  —  About 200 protesters clashed on Friday with Pakistani police outside the French consulate in the southern city of Karachi after a demonstration against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo turned violent.
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Genius tests ‘annotate everything everywhere’ feature  —  Genius, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup that made headlines earlier this week when it poached pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones from The New Yorker and hired New Yorker contributor Christopher Glazek, has quietly made major changes …
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New York Times:
Press Freedom in Hong Kong Under Threat, Report Says  —  HONG KONG — Press freedom in Hong Kong, long an enclave of liberties in the shadow of mainland China, is increasingly threatened, with journalists assaulted, news organizations censoring stories and advertisers shunning publications that rile the authorities, a new report says.
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
BuzzFeed launches its own ‘public chat’ channel in messaging app Viber  —  Online news site's partnership follows an earlier deal with rival Viber, and follows rumours of a similar alliance with Snapchat  —  Online news site BuzzFeed's initial growth may have been fuelled by social networks Facebook …
Arif Durrani / MediaWeek:
Evening Standard to reinvest savings from job losses into digital and distribution  —  The London Evening Standard will invest all of the savings made by an ongoing redundancy programme among its editorial team back into the business, with a notable investment into the daily newspaper's distribution …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Inside the NY Times' audience development strategy  —  It was the fall of 2014, and Alexandra MacCallum was filling out her new audience development staff as The New York Times' newly appointed assistant managing editor for outreach.  The timing couldn't have been more awkward …
Discussion: @mathewi and @niemanlab
JC Finley / UPI:
Saudi Arabia postpones flogging of blogger Raif Badawi … Saudi Arabia postponed Friday the flogging of blogger Raif Badawi, sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison.  —  Badawi was arrested in 2012 for cybercrime and insulting Islam through his website The Liberal Saudi Network.
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Amazon executive hopes for era of peace with publishers  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The overseer of Amazon.com's Kindle e-book and publishing divisions is preaching peace.  —  With a monthslong standoff between Amazon and Hachette Book Group over e-book revenues settled and a multiyear agreement in place …
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Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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