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Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Luz, who co-wrote Le Monde editorial questioning the magazine's direction, is to leave, says pressure is too much to bear — Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist Who Depicted Muhammad After Attack to Leave — LONDON — The cartoonist known as Luz, who drew the polarizing cover …
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Shawn W. Crispin / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Cartoonists increasingly facing same threats as journalists in countries where free speech is restricted; assaulted, disappeared, often on government orders — Drawing the line: Cartoonists under threat … Zunar's trial is emblematic of the risks faced by cartoonists worldwide …
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New York Times, @lalehsr, @schism_schasm, PRI, @jessicajerreat and Guardian
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
After nearly a decade of research, Apple shelved plans over a year ago for the TV set that Carl Icahn expects it to release in 2016 — Behind Apple's Move to Shelve TV Plans — Apple had dropped its TV plans, but investor Carl Icahn sees the firm entering the market next year
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David Lieberman / Deadline:
In open letter to Tim Cook, Icahn trumpets big market for Apple in television, for hardware and streaming
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Quartz
Brian Murphy / Washington Post:
Trial of Washington Post's Teheran bureau chief Jason Rezaian, detained in Iran for 10 months, begins next week — Lawyer: Trial of Post reporter held in Iran set to begin next week — Jason Rezaian's journey has taken him from a childhood in San Francisco to his father's native Iran.
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Washington Post, @jimsciutto, @anupkaphle, @adampopescu, @dabeard, Poynter, Associated Press and FishbowlDC
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Jeremy Paxman: BBC TV licence fee clearly can't last — Former Newsnight presenter says the fee is unsustainable in the long term but there are currently no alternatives — Former Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman has said the TV licence fee “clearly can't last” but said there was no alternative funding model for the BBC at present.
Valerie Vande Panne / Columbia Journalism Review:
As the archives degrade for the Boston Phoenix, publisher hopes to announce a deal soon with a university to save them — Can the Boston Phoenix's digital history be saved? — It's always hard when a newspaper dies. But when the alt-weekly Boston Phoenix passed away …
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Boston Globe, E&, Mediashift, Media Nation, @coreyhutchins and @cjr
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Automattic acquires WooCommerce, maker of a popular e-commerce Wordpress plugin, sources say for more than $30M — WordPress Parent Automattic Buys WooCommerce, a Shopping Tool for Web Publishers — Last year Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, raised $160 million.
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Matt Mullenweg, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, WooThemes and The Next Web
Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog:
Tweets get more prominent placement in Google results after Google-Twitter deal; Twitter doesn't earn directly off display but will gain new traffic — A new way to discover Tweets — We're excited to team up with Google to bring Twitter's unique, real-time content to Google's search results.
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The Official Google Blog, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, Adweek, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Re/code, iDownloadBlog.com, GeekWire, Variety, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, @twitter, Pocket-lint and TIME
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
MixRadio, the streaming music service sold by Microsoft to Line last year, launches iOS and Android apps — MixRadio Finally Brings Its Music Service To iOS And Android — MixRadio, the radio music service that was transferred from Nokia to Microsoft and then bought by messaging app company Line …
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Contract between Sony Music and Spotify shows how streaming rates are calculated plus yearly advances and most-favored-nation clause for Sony Music — This was Sony Music's contract with Spotify — Over the last year the music industry has been in flux as artists, labels …
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TIME, Engadget, @mattwatkajtys, @eriqgardner, @poptastic, @jimcarrollotr, @crablin and Business Insider
Jon Steinberg / Medium:
CEO of Daily Mail North America says greatest challenge to news reporting is advertisers not willing to place ads next to real, hard news — News is Not Porn or File Sharing — Years back, native digital media operations got a hard time from traditional or mainstream media for not doing enough hard or real news.
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@brie, @tabithagold and @jyarow
Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge:
Inside Google's secretive anti-fraud team battling the bots that siphon billions of digital ad dollars — Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud — Cable News Wars Rage as New Players Join the Battle — In a conference room nine floors above London's St. Giles High Street …
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Business Insider and AdExchanger
Steven Norton / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Kail, hired by Yahoo last summer as CIO, has left the company in wake of a lawsuit filed by Netflix last year alleging he took kickbacks from vendors — Yahoo CIO Mike Kail No Longer With Company — Mike Kail, chief information officer and senior vice president of infrastructure at Yahoo Inc., has left the company.
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Variety
Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
New York Times C.I.O. Marc Frons to leave the company — Executive change often drives more executive change, and that's what the word is today coming out of The New York Times. — This morning, S.V.P. and Chief Information Officer Marc Frons announced his departure …
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@marcfrons and @pmaiorana
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