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Charlie Hebdo staff vow to print 1m copies as French media support grows
Source: The Guardian
Surviving staff members of Charlie Hebdo have vowed to publish the satirical weekly next Wednesday, despite the murder of most of its senior journalists – with a much larger than usual print run of 1m copies.
Within 24 hours of the massacre of 12 people – including eight journalists – some €250,000 (£195,000) had been donated by the Digital Press Fund, paid for by Google, to support the French press. French media groups including Le Monde, France Télévisions and Radio France, are also working on a plan to contribute a similar amount, urging other media outlets to join in offering humanitarian and financial support.
This money is expected to be taken from a donation tax, according to a report in Les Echos. In a further sign of the French media uniting to save the weekly, the two groups involved in the distribution of the papers will take no fee for next week’s issue.
Ludovic Blecher, the director of Google IPWA Fund for Digital Innovation, told the Guardian: “We are trying to find an exceptional answer for an exceptional situation.” He stressed that many diverse, largely uncoordinated efforts were being made to support the left-leaning weekly following the attack. “We are a fund for the press. We must enable them to be able to write, even if we don’t agree, it’s a question of diversity of speech.”
Within 24 hours of the massacre of 12 people – including eight journalists – some €250,000 (£195,000) had been donated by the Digital Press Fund, paid for by Google, to support the French press. French media groups including Le Monde, France Télévisions and Radio France, are also working on a plan to contribute a similar amount, urging other media outlets to join in offering humanitarian and financial support.
This money is expected to be taken from a donation tax, according to a report in Les Echos. In a further sign of the French media uniting to save the weekly, the two groups involved in the distribution of the papers will take no fee for next week’s issue.
Ludovic Blecher, the director of Google IPWA Fund for Digital Innovation, told the Guardian: “We are trying to find an exceptional answer for an exceptional situation.” He stressed that many diverse, largely uncoordinated efforts were being made to support the left-leaning weekly following the attack. “We are a fund for the press. We must enable them to be able to write, even if we don’t agree, it’s a question of diversity of speech.”
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/08/charlie-hebdo-staff-publish-next-week-1m-print-run
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Cabu published his last drawing in Le Canard yesterday
Mohamed penetrating a pig? 
