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10:50 PM ET, February 20, 2014

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Uri Friedman / The Atlantic Online:
Why Venezuela's Revolution Will Be Tweeted  —  The country's street protests are playing out dramatically on the social network.  —  We can't seem to agree about whether social media fuels, merely facilitates, or actually hinders protest movements.  But in Venezuela, where five people …
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BBC:
Venezuela threatens to expel CNN over protest coverage  —  Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has threatened to expel the US news network CNN from the country over its reporting of recent protests there.  —  Mr Maduro said he would take action if CNN did not “rectify its coverage”.
Discussion: @fieldproducer
Danny O'Brien / Electronic Frontier Foundation:   Venezuela's Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout
Om Malik / Gigaom:
Om Malik leaves day-to-day operations at GigaOm, becomes full partner at True Ventures, site raises $8M more  —  Now that Gigaom is all grown up, it's time for the next chapter  —  It's a new year (although it's well underway) and I'm excited to talk about the new phase at Gigaom.
BBC:
Brooks denies knowing of NoW hacker  —  Rebekah Brooks has said she never heard of a private investigator who has since been jailed for phone hacking while she was editor of the News of the World.  —  Mrs Brooks said that during her leadership of the paper, she never heard investigator Glenn Mulcaire's name mentioned.
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Herald Scotland:
Rebekah Brooks acquitted of one charge of misconduct in phone hacking trial
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks not on trial for having worked for Rupert Murdoch, court told
Gregg Carlstrom / Foreign Policy:
Why Egypt Hates Al Jazeera  —  The network's Cairo-based staff, who stand accused of running a terror cell from a luxury hotel, find themselves caught in the middle of a regional power struggle.  Cairo — Last summer, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy was one of thousands of protesters who took to Tahrir Square …
Discussion: @maitelsadany and @daliaezzat_
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Maggie Michael / Associated Press:
Trial of Al Jazeera reporters begins in Egypt as Human Rights Watch group denounces charges
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
FCC wants to improve quality of closed captioning  —  FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler wants to improve closed captioning.  —  “Five wins and a very light power reese know” sounds more like gibberish than a weather forecast.  —  But that was the closed captioning on a WeatherNation report last month.
Discussion: TVWeek.com
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
‘House of Cards’ Binge-Watching: 2% of U.S. Subs Finished Entire Series Over First Weekend  —  Binge-watching on the rise compared to drama series' first season  —  There are some dedicated “House of Cards” fans out there.  —  Approximately 2% of Netflix subscribers on U.S. broadband networks took …
Discussion: @elliottberger and The Verge
Jon Chesto / Boston Business Journal:
Patch's move to bring back laid-off editor is a sign that the firm is hiring journalists again  —  When Susan Petroni learned on Jan. 29 that she would lose her job as Framingham editor for the Patch network of news sites, the news didn't come as a big shock.
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
M.L.B., N.B.A., N.H.L. and others to launch joint digital sports channel with Time Inc.  —  Three of the “big four” U.S. sports leagues are teaming up to launch a new digital video channel, in conjunction with Time Inc. The channel, called 120 Sports, will launch later this spring …
Sarah Kendzior / Politico:
What does our addiction to disaster porn say about us?  —  What does our addiction to disaster porn say about us?  —  Journalist Simon Shuster said it was “straight out of Hieronymus Bosch.”  Writer Philip Gourevitch thought it was more like Bruegel.  But the main word to describe …
Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore Sun Media Group to buy City Paper  —  Staff reports  —  The Baltimore Sun Media Group said today it is buying the alternative weekly City Paper for an undisclosed price.  The transaction is set to close in March, the company said.  —  The move brings together two of the Baltimore area's most well-known news organizations.
Liz Gannes / Re/code:
Before Facebook Deal, WhatsApp Was Helping BuzzFeed and Shazam Go Viral With New Platform Tools  —  Unlike mobile messaging competitors like Line and WeChat, WhatsApp has taken a resolute stance against becoming a platform that distributes games and other apps.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
News video curator Watchup will update app in March to incorporate ads, add PostTV as partner  —  Right back after these messages: Watchup adds ads and partners with The Washington Post  —  The news video aggregator Watchup aims, in a sense, to recreate something like the traditional …
Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:
Rivals debate auction rules for Philly newspapers … PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The top investor in Philadelphia's largest newspapers wants the company sold in a quick, closed auction among current partners while a rival wants a slower sale open to all.  —  The Philadelphia Inquirer …
Discussion: Philadelphia Magazine
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Awards underscore the value of important work and reinforce commitment to do it.  —  Among the long list of inexact sciences in the world, picking award-winners is right up there.  And that's true whether the subject is movies, music or journalism.  Let's start with movies.
Discussion: @nsncgroup
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Iran's Judiciary Closes a New Pro-Government Newspaper  —  TEHRAN — An Iranian newspaper aligned with the country's reform-minded new president was closed on Thursday by Iran's judiciary, only six days after its first issue, local news outlets reported.  —  It is unclear whether the closing …
Discussion: Associated Press
 
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POLITICO taps Hotline EIC for Campaign Pro
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Andrew Lapin / Current.org:
ProPublica receives $1M grant from MacArthur Foundation
 

 
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Financial Times:
Microsoft invests $1.5B in Abu Dhabi-based AI startup G42 for a minority stake, after G42 severed ties with Chinese suppliers; Brad Smith will join G42's board

Connor Jones / The Register:
UnitedHealth says the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare cost the company $872M in Q1; another ransomware group appears to be extorting the company

Raphael Satter / Reuters:
The Open Source Security Foundation and the OpenJS Foundation say the attempt to insert a secret backdoor into XZ Utils “may not be an isolated incident”
 
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