French satirical magazine returns to newsstands with financial future secure and print run 50 times greater than before militant Islamists killed 12 journalists

Before the attack, Charlie Hebdo had a print run of between 24,000 and 50,000 copies a week and a modest readership. But after a special commemoration edition published after the attacks sold 8m, with queues at newsstands across France, this week’s edition will have a print run of 2.5m. Charlie Hebdo now has 200,000 subscribers, compared with 8,000 before the attacks.

The magazine, which only a few months ago was struggling financially, now faces the question of how to make the most effective use of the donations that have poured in since the attacks, and how to boost its digital presence. Asked in a radio phone-in whether the magazine risked losing its soul, Riss, the new editor, who was injured in the attacks, said: “We have to hold on to the spirit we had before.”

Julien Beaupé was in a nearby office when masked gunmen attacked the satirical newspaper. Moments later, he entered the newsroom to help emergency medical workers and survivors.

Charlie Hebdo will return to French newsstands on February 25, a month and a half after the deadly terrorist attack at its offices in Paris.

The new release date was announced by one of the satirical magazine’s staff members, Laurent Leger.

Caroline Fourest, a former staffer who remains friends with many former colleagues at Charlie Hebdo, told CNNMoney that the magazine is resuming publication “thanks to their supporters,” including magazines and publications around the world.

Management of the magazine has revealed little about its plans.

Charlie Hebdo’s new edition ‘made with joy as well as pain’
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/13/charlie-hebdo-3m-copies-languages-french-magazine

“We are happy to have done it, happy to have managed to do it,” he said. “It was difficult because it had to be something of us, something of the events which we have been confronted with. This edition – the whole of Charlie Hebdo is in it. This edition is Charlie Hebdo.”

“I’m sorry we’ve drawn him yet again but the Muhammad we’ve drawn is a man who is crying.”

Charlie Hebdo will come out on Wednesday, with a print run of 3m, instead of the usual 60,000 copies.

In the hours following the bloody attack, the idea that the magazine could come out a week later seemed impossible.

But the reaction of the surviving members – and their compatriots – was immediate.

Do Tech Companies Really Support Free Speech?
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/tech-companies-really-support-free-speech-98116/

Tech companies are companies first, and their politics shift to best serve their business. For platforms like Facebook and Google, “free speech” protection is only a central principle when and where it is convenient. And even when it does serve their profit models, it is arguably doing so at the expense of the modern press, the work of cartoonists and other image-makers, and the actual making of “free” speech online.

Tech’s dedication to “free speech” is apparently a quite serendipitous phenomenon.

EVEN WHEN THEY ARE not implicitly supporting assaults on free political speech, tech companies are “democratizing” speech in a way that builds wealth for themselves and strips it from creators. By its nature, the network dilutes authorship.

Tech platforms seeking as much “free” and high-quality content as possible are now in some cases actually preventing the actual making of it. One magazine editor said he doesn’t publish many cartoons because “comics tend to get thrown on Imgur or another source and circulated without credit.”

Modern technology is both useful and dangerous for visual artists.

Islamic terrorists often exceed the liberal people’s ability to understand and blurs their thinking.

Multi-politician, journalist and opinion leader was shocked by the Paris massacre. They warned emotionally to the citizens, so that they do not make hasty conclusions.

Liberal opinion leaders have now found a suitable motive for the crime.

Al-Qaeda’s coat did not have freedom of speech, but the liberal intelligentsia, or to be more left-wing intellectuals. The intelligentsia is the face and the names they are known, they cheer. Intellectuals identify themselves more easily kanssaintellektuelleihin than, say, quite ordinary people in shops or at railway stations.

The liberal intelligentsia is an important gatekeeper in France and Finland. Al-Qaeda wants to break this influential group of mental spine to cause social conflicts.

Intellectuals is painful to admit this view. Intellectuals is easier to talk about confusing immunities as granted that the intelligentsia is one of the pawn in a complex war of terrorists. The whims of the intellectuals can never be sure.

Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/2015011119005787_ul.shtml

Firebombing at German paper that ran Charlie Hebdo cartoons
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Jyllands-Posten was at the center of a 2005 cartoon crisis. After numerous terror threats, editors chose to play it safe
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