The New York City Police Department has assigned police officers to guard the Manhattan offices of at least three media outlets—Gawker Media, BuzzFeed, and The Daily Beast—in direct response to the deadly shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo on January 7. Two officers assigned to Gawker’s offices in Nolita confirmed today that the N.Y.P.D. has ordered special protection of media outlets in light of the massacre.

What would happen if other editorial properties had as much funny money as Vox? What if other publications decided to spend millions of dollars on a thirty second ad instead of paying more journalists? I think...it'd go a little something... like this...

Employees of Vox: if you've been thinking about asking for a raise, now is the time. (Updated)

The government of Paris plans to sue Fox News for airing several segments claiming the French capital contained “no-go zones” that prohibit entry to non-Muslims and are frequently avoided by city police. Fox has since retracted and apologized for airing the segments, which were widely mocked by French media.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a big boo-boo teddy bear whose cheeks I just wanna mush-mush, hides his cuddly body behind a facade of biting wit. I know how it is. According to a study by UC-Irvine professor Richard Hasen, Scalia is the most sarcastic justice, using acerbic humor (probably as a crutch, lol) to underscore his opinions. What does this mean for the wider world?

CNN International correspondent Jim Clancy has left the cable news channel, where he worked for 34 years, according to an internal memo obtained by TVNewser. CNN confirmed Clancy’s departure in a separate statement: “We thank him for more than three decades of distinguished service, and wish him nothing but the best.” But the network declined to comment on a series of bizarre tweets—in which Clancy seemed to suggest that Israeli propaganda had a hand in the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris—which preceded his abrupt resignation.

Friday's front page of the Oakland Tribune captures the whitewashed Oscar nominations with a flawless headline.

Today in New York magazine, female journalist Marin Cogan asks: "why can't Hollywood get female journalists right?"

A firm that invests in and lobbies on behalf of for-profit colleges has bought a controlling stake in Inside Higher Ed, an education trade magazine (and regular Gawker source) that regularly reports on the problems with for-profit colleges. That's very bad!

Distinguished Gawker alum and longtime desert dweller Ken Layne is now editing the quarterly publication Desert Oracle, which you can subscribe to here. Ken Layne is himself an oracle.

It is common knowledge that House Speaker John Boehner is a notoriously hard drinker. So after the F.B.I. arrested a Cincinnati country club bartender for conspiring to poison Boehner’s Merlot, an editor at Boston.com wrote a post with the following light-hearted joke: “Had he been poisoned as planned, perhaps his pickled liver could have filtered out the toxins.” Predictably, Boehner’s office complained about the joke. Less predictably: The site retracted the joke about Boehner’s liver and issued a formal apology.

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim now controls a 17% stake in The New York Times Company, which publishes the paper of the same name. Slim’s newly acquired stock makes him the company’s largest individual shareholder.*

Wired editor Scott Dadich would like his offices to be free of action figures and other distractions. Today he sent a memo to the magazine's employees, which Wired fan-blog The Awl has reproduced:

"Joan Didion requires very little explanation to a very large group of people, representing a class of consumers who tend to be young, female, upper middle class, white, and somewhat inwardly tortured." A nice essay on Joananism, via The Awl.

Since August 2011, a pseudonymous Twitter account named "@NYTFridge" has been effortfully but effectively taking part in the cozy conversations of media Twitter. In its three-plus years of existence, the account has piled up more than 30,000 tweets and has accumulated more than 8,600 followers in the process, making up in relentlessness what it lacks in efficiency.

Sasha Frere-Jones, who is not a black French woman, has accepted a job with annotation start-up and ephemeral website Genius (formerly known as Rap Genius), leaving his comfortable perch as pop music critic at analog paper magazine the New Yorker. Presumably, Genius offered Frere-Jones the promise of an intellectually stimulating experience, a chance to mold editorial content in his image, and a trough of cash and stock options.

Last week, a U.S.C. journalism professor named Marc Cooper wrote on Facebook that New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet had demonstrated “absolute cowardice” by refusing to publish any Charlie Hebdo cartoons depicting Mohammad in his paper. In response, Baquet called Cooper an “asshole.” We can disagree on whether or not Cooper is an asshole. But let’s agree on this: If Dean Baquet thinks someone is an asshole, he should say so in public.