Charlie Hebdo to Publish 1 Million copies of New Issue

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The French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo plans to respond to an extremist attack that decimated its staff by upping its usual print run of 60,000 to 1 million copies next week.
Next week’s edition will have only eight pages, half the size of the last edition, according to French news reports.
“It will be a reduced eight-page edition,†said Richard Malka, the newspaper’s attorney. “Although cartoonists from all over the world have offered their work, we took the view it would be important to produce it all ourselves, using the crew remaining.â€
The attack on an editorial meeting by masked gunmen wielding automatic rifles on Wednesday killed 12 people, including five cartoonists and Charlie Hebdo’s chief editor. It also left two policemen dead.
France declared Thursday a national day of mourning.
Liberation magazine announced on Thursday that Charlie Hebdo will begin operating out of its offices.
“We are providing them with everything they will need to produce their newspaper,†a release by Liberation said.

 

 

Liberation also helped Charlie Hebdo continue publication in 2011, when it was firebombed after publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

The newspaper Le Monde has promised cash to help meet Charlie Hebdo’s estimated half-million-euro production cost.
Charlie Hebdo had sold only half of its press run of 60,000 at the time of this week’s attack, when a copy cost 3 euros or about $4.20.
Prices have since soared. More than 2,400 copies were listed on sale on ebay.ca on Thursday, with one copy of Wednesday’s issue listed for $4,202.10.
The often cash-strapped newspaper has amused and infuriated readers since 1970 with cartoons lampooning all religions and public figures, including the Pope, Islamic extremists, politicians and celebrities.
Hours after the shooting, officials from various French radio, television and newspaper outlets met at the French culture ministry.
“We have a mission,†Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin told reporters after the meeting. “We have to organize ourselves so the next edition of Charlie Hebdo comes out.â€
“Public aid to help Charlie would be justified,†France’s justice minister, Christiane Taubira, said in a radio interview on Thursday. “We cannot envision Charlie Hebdo disappearing.â€
The tiny publication has received death threats since 2006, when it republished a dozen cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that had appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Former Charlie Hebdo employee Caroline Fourest told ABC News Australia that she’s confident current and former workers will rally to get the paper back on newsstands next Wednesday.
“We made jokes about the crazy, stupid people who were violent enough to be afraid of a simple cartoon,†Fourest said. “They can continue to be afraid because there will be more cartoons.
“To have an automatic weapon and kill people is really easy. You don’t need any talent to do that. You need talent to be a cartoonist. You need talent to be a journalist.â€
Fourest worked at Charlie Hebdo at the time of the 2011 firebombing.
After that attack, editor/cartoonist Stéphane (Charb) Charbonnier told Le Monde newspaper: “I’d rather die standing than live on my knees.†Charbonnier was one of the employees killed on Wednesday.
With files from James Overton in Paris.

 

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/01/08/charlie_hedbo_plans_to_publish_1_million_copies_of_new_issue_next_week.html

 

"Stupidity will not win," says a surviving columnist for Charlie Hebdo, and the magazine will be published next week despite the devastating attack at its Paris office that left 12 dead.

Patrick Pelloux, a Charlie Hebdo columnist, said on CNN affiliate BFMTV that the issue will be published next Wednesday.
"We can't let them win," Pelloux said.
Earlier, the Paris-based AFP wire service reported that the staff met Thursday to begin planning the next issue. "We are all suffering, with grief, with fear, but we will do it anyway because stupidity will not win," Pelloux said.
A lawyer for the magazine told AFP that a million copies will be printed, more than ten times its usual total.
In the wake of the attack, a number of French officials and editors at other news outlets have said they will aid the continued publication of the magazine, potentially through financial and technological support.
On Thursday, a French media fund financially backed by Google (GOOG) said it would donate money to Charlie Hebdo. The fund helps promote online news media in the country.
The amount of money and the way it'll be spent is still being discussed, said Ludovic Blecher, the director of the group.
Other foreign media companies have also pledged cash. Britain's Guardian Media Group will donate £100,000 to Charlie Hebdo "to help ensure it's not silenced," Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger tweeted.

 

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/08/media/paris-manhunt-charlie-hebdo/

 

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[Swando 300]

Great of them to not give in to Terror! :)

[garnite 8]

where can i buy it? sign me up.

[Morphine Prince 109,648]

I bet people are gonna be running to buy it.

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[darkwolf 590]

It's been reported that more than 12600 people subscribed to Charlie hebdo betwwen Wednesday/Tuesday, normally the magazine received only 300 subscriptions a year.

[monsterdreams 1,529]

This is a great way to protest

[Melech 9,900]

where can i buy it? sign me up.

imma buy it too. 

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I'm curious to see what they will be publishing given they have lost dozen friends and a police officer.

[Qualle1 1,385]

Good news, that they will be able to keep up with their work so soon after the horribe terror attack!