The staff of Charlie Hebdo has vowed to keep the magazine alive, and outside help is rolling in to ensure they can keep that promise.
The French government is pledging nearly €1 million (about $1.2 million) to Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine that was the target in one of the most horrific attacks France has seen in years. The pledge, first reported by France 24, is the largest in what has become a growing surge of donations for the magazine.
[seealso slug=http://sale-online.click/2015/01/07/charlie-hebdo-magazine/%5D%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3ECharlie Hebdo announced on Thursday via its website that the next issue of the magazine would come out on Jan. 14 with the title "Le Journal Des Surivants" or "The Magazine of the Survivors."
Other donations continued to come in. Google donated €250,000 ($296,000) to the magazine through its Press Innovation Fund, according to a report from The Guardian. French newspapers promised another €250,000 through the Press and Pluralism Fund, according to Les Echos. Guardian Media Group is pitching in another £100,000 (more than $150,000).
Guardian Media Group has pledged £100k donation to Charlie Hebdo to help ensure it's not silenced. Google giving $300k— alan rusbridger (@arusbridger) January 8, 2015
The Press and Pluralism Fund is also soliciting donations online, and a separate crowdfunding campaign has already raised more than €24,000 ($28,000).
The future of the magazine was in serious doubt after masked gunmen stormed the publication's office on Wednesday, killing 12 people, including the magazine's director and some of its most well-known cartoonists. One suspect has surrendered while two others remain at large.
The weekly magazine began publishing in 1969 and has often stirred controversy with the cartoons that appear on its covers. It was reportedly having financial difficulties before the attack. A December Facebook post from the magazine had solicited donations to keep it running.
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Post by Charlie Hebdo Officiel.
However, the support will help the magazine to not only remain open, but it will also be able to respond with its largest-ever print run. In a television appearance on Wednesday night, Charlie Hebdo's lawyer, Richard Malka, said that the staff had resolved to print 1 million copies of the weekly.
It usually prints only 60,000.