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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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America's Literary Elite Takes a Bold Stand Against Dead Journalists
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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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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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Sources: Apple to announce new Beats at WWDC on June 8 with consumer non-beta launch late June — Beats revamp still debuting at WWDC, global release late-June, iOS 9 details revealed — According to a report today from Billboard, Apple does not have the deals in place to launch …
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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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Nieman Lab, E&, @myurow, @joshsternberg, @coryhaik and @abeaujon

How NPR's Seoul bureau chief Elise Hu uses Tumblr to complement her reporting and grow an audience off radio — Elise goes East: How NPR's new Seoul bureau chief is using Tumblr to complement her reporting — Last month, about 70 parents who lost their children in the sinking of the Sewol ferry …
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NPR, @amzam, @niemanlab, @cmac and Elise Goes East!

Parent company of Publishers' Weekly strikes deal with NA Publishing to digitize magazine's archive, 750K pages in total — PW Inks Archive Deal with NA Publishing — PW has struck a deal with NA Publishing that will result in the entire archive of ‘Publishers Weekly’ print magazine, some 750,000 pages, to be digitized.
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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 …


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 …

News Corp misses estimates with Q3 revenue of $2.06M; advertising in news division fell 12% — Murdoch's News Corp. Trails Earnings Estimates as Sales Decline — News Corp., the newspaper publisher controlled by billionaire Rupert Murdoch, reported quarterly earnings that missed analysts' estimates …
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As Twitter invests more in multimedia like Periscope, its media partners will view it increasingly as competition — Twitter Has a Short-Term Periscope Problem. And a Long-Term Media Mess. — Here are three good questions to ask in the wake of this weekend, when Floyd Mayweather Jr. beat Manny Pacquiao …


FCC gives broadcast approval to Pandora-owned, South Dakota FM radio station KXMZ — Pandora's Radio Station Gets FCC Approval — Pandora can now start playing music — on the FM dial. — Broadcast approval for Rapid City, South Dakota's KXMZ, which Pandora purchased for $600,000 …
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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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