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Michelle Dean / Guardian:
Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Gérard Biard: When we draw religious figures, we mock institutions, not people — Charlie Hebdo editors: ‘We are not naive’ — At a panel convened in New York to discuss the French magazine's award from PEN for courage, its editors say it is power they mean to provoke, not religion
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Michael Moynihan / The Daily Beast:
America's Literary Elite Takes a Bold Stand Against Dead Journalists — Hitler. Goebbels. Hebdo. Really? Can the PEN members boycotting Tuesday's Courage Award for the slain French satirists really not tell the difference between racism and mocking racism?
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Gaiman, Bechdel, Spiegelman, Packer, Mafisi, and Mabanckou agree to host tables at PEN gala, replacing writers who withdrew in protest over Hebdo award
Gaiman, Bechdel, Spiegelman, Packer, Mafisi, and Mabanckou agree to host tables at PEN gala, replacing writers who withdrew in protest over Hebdo award
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Washpostpr / Washington Post:
Washington Post testing ways to extend tablet experience to mobile web for select readers, new site and mobile apps to be released for all by late summer — The Washington Post to test new web experience for expanding readership — Following success of tablet app launched last year, Post considers extending to the web
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
The Upshot at The New York Times used IP addresses to deliver a story rewritten for specific locations — The Upshot uses geolocation to push readers deeper into data — When you're writing about how place — be that a neighborhood or a city — affects a child's chances of getting out of poverty …
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Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:
Disney tops expectations in Q2 with $2.1B in revenue and a 14% YoY increase in EPS to $1.23 — Disney Stock Hits All-Time High After Surprisingly Strong Q2 Results — The Walt Disney Company's stock soared to an all-time high Tuesday after it reported better-than-expected earnings …
Alina Selyukh / Reuters:
Netflix calls on FCC to reject proposed AT&T-DirecTV merger — (Reuters) - Netflix Inc has urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reject the pending $48 billion merger of AT&T Inc and DirecTV as currently proposed, according to regulatory disclosures posted on Tuesday.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The Washington Post fails to correct mistakes in stories on Baltimore, its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of lapses in the US Secret Service — The Washington Post's correction problem — Six days ago, The Washington Post published an article headlined, “Prisoner in van thought [Freddie] Gray was ‘trying to injure himself’.”
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Jessica Elgot / Guardian:
The Sun criticised over offer to pay £100 to Tory voters for ‘good news’ stories — News agency issues call-out on tabloid's behalf, seeking positive case studies from readers about how coalition policies have helped them — The Sun has been criticised for an offer by an agency working …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Discovery Communications Q1 Profit Rises 8.7% On Distribution Revenue — Discovery Communications said first-quarter profit rose 8.7% as the company was able to increase the amount of revenue it gleans from distributing its programming via cable and satellite outlets, even as advertising revenue …
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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
McSweeney's Looks To Raise $150,000 Through Kickstarter — Literary publications are going directly to their readers for funds — and the Eggers empire is looking to raise the most. — The San Francisco publishing house/literary magazine/quarterly/humor website/podcast empire McSweeney's …
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Michelle Castillo / Adweek:
Machinima Is Ready to Own the Comic and Gamer Audience — When it comes to digital content for die-hard millennial fans of gaming, comics and other geek-out subjects, Machinima is one of the top purveyors in the space. However, even though it was one of the early multi-channel networks …
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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
A founding editor of Tech City News launches The Memo in UK, aiming for accessible tech news using curation and original stories, including election monitor — The Memo to explain ‘at a glance’ why technology news matters — New site launched this week aiming to offer a bigger picture …