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10:35 AM ET, February 22, 2014

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CNN:
Venezuela says CNN can stay, a day after saying ‘get out’  —  (CNN) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro told a CNN reporting team Friday that it could continue reporting in the South American country, a day after the government revoked or denied press credentials for CNN journalists.
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Natalie Kitroeff / The Lede:
Venezuela Battles Media, Social and Otherwise, to Restrict Protest Coverage  —  Tensions escalated further in Venezuela on Friday as street protests that began 10 days ago continued and the government persisted in clamping down on coverage of the unrest in the broadcast media and online.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Attorney General Signs New Rules to Limit Access to Journalists' Records  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who drew fire last spring over the Justice Department's aggressive tactics for secretly obtaining reporters' phone logs and emails as part of leak investigations …
Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
Direct connection between Comcast and Netflix networks suggests peering agreement reached  —  Sources: Netflix and Comcast have reached a peering agreement  —  Consumers' troubles with online video may be subsiding — at least for Comcast customers.  Comcast and Netflix appear to have resolved …
Discussion: The Verge, Engadget and BGR
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Netflix packets being dropped every day because Verizon wants more money  —  Verizon wants to be paid by consumers and Cogent, but Cogent refuses to pay.  —  The battle over who should pay to carry Netflix traffic is heating up again, and one of the main players blames Verizon's greed …
Discussion: @caseyliss and CNNMoney.com
Cathy Loughran / BBC College of Journalism:
Getting into journalism: Just go out and do it, says VICE maverick Tim Pool  —  In the first of a series of blog posts on alternative ways to get into journalism, Chicago-born self-taught journalist Tim Pool, now an international correspondent for media company VICE, tears up the traditional rule book.
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Bloomberg:
Roku Said to Be Weighing Initial Public Offering in U.S. in 2014  —  Roku Inc., the maker of set-top boxes that connect TVs to the Internet, is weighing an initial public offering in the U.S. this year, according to people with knowledge of the matter.  —  A decision to move ahead hasn't been made …
Associated Press:
White House bars media from Dalai Lama meeting  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House defended its decision Friday to bar reporters and photojournalists from a meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama, while acknowledging the news media's legitimate interest in covering the two leaders' encounter.
Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Sees Time Warner Cable Deal Boosting Broadband Competition  —  Executive Says Deal Wouldn't Harm Home Users or Content Companies  —  A Comcast executive said Friday the company's planned $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable would create new competition in the commercial market …
James Ball / Guardian:
Why are all the House of Cards journalists so bad at journalism?  —  Zoe and the gang can't report, lack ethics and have the common sense of a hacker's guinea pig.  Somebody should fire them … Journalists have a guilty pleasure.  In fact, we have several.
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
TV antenna maker Mohu targets cord cutters with new Channels device  —  Mohu, best known for its Mohu Leaf TV antenna, is introducing a new device that combines over-the-air TV with online video services.  The company will launch a Kickstarter campaign for its new Mohu Channels product early next week …
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Dish's Charlie Ergen: I'm Nervous About Comcast-TWC, Surprised Our Business Hasn't Been Worse  —  Optimism is supposedly one of the qualities people look for in politicians and business leaders.  Apparently no one told Charlie Ergen, who seemed less concerned with soothing investors …
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
FCC's new closed captioning rules had long journey  —  FCC rules aimed at stopping inaccurate closed captioning took ten years to become a reality.  New FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler made it a priority of his regime.  —  Thomas “Tom” Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Proposed FCC study of news organizations sparks outcry
 
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