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7:35 AM ET, February 21, 2014

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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”.
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Pew Internet:
Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters  —  Summary of Findings  —  Polarized Crowds: Political conversations on Twitter  —  Conversations on Twitter create networks with identifiable contours as people reply to and mention one another in their tweets.
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Gannett blog shuts down after almost 7 years  —  Gannett Blog, a nonprofit site being run by an ex-Gannett editor, has shut down after nearly seven years.  —  The site was launched by Jim Hopkins, a former reporter and editor at USA Today, and was probably the foremost tracker of the tumult …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources say Amazon readying a Web TV box competing with Apple TV and Roku, for March rollout  —  Amazon Gets Its TV Box Ready, Again  —  Amazon is gearing up to take on Apple and Roku, again.  —  Industry sources say Amazon is getting ready to launch a Web TV box that would compete …
Discussion: The Verge
Lily Kuo / Quartz:
A Chinese tycoon is close to buying a bygone icon of American capitalism  —  A Chinese conglomerate on a global buying spree is reportedly in talks to buy Forbes Media—although for much less than the Forbes family has been hoping.  Fosun International—which most recently bought JP Morgan's …
Discussion: Fortune
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 …
Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks 'not aware of hacker's contract while she was NoW editor'  —  Ex-editor tells Old Bailey that Glenn Mulcaire deal, which paid him £92,000 in 2001, was arranged without her knowledge  —  Rebekah Brooks was not aware of the annual contract the News of the World had with Glenn Mulcaire …
Discussion: BBC
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
In UK, Amazon takes on Netflix by combining LoveFilm video-on-demand with Prime for £79 a year  —  Amazon takes on Netflix with rebrand of LoveFilm video-on-demand service  —  Online retailer will fold film and TV rental arm into its Prime subscription service for combined price of £79 a year
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.
Henry Taylor / TheMediaBriefing:
Contributoria catch up Q&A: how the first month went  —  Described as “if Kickstarter and Medium had a baby”, crowd-funded journalism community Contributoria is now one month old.  —  The Guardian Media Group-backed startup has signed up more 650 members - 65 percent of which are writers - and 24 projects have been backed.
Discussion: @mattmcalister
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 …
Susan Currie Sivek / Mediashift:
How First Look Pushes Verticals Ahead of Overarching ‘Magazine’ Brand  —  First Look Media has gotten plenty of coverage for its strategy of creating “digital magazines” based on the work of specific journalists with unique voices who will dive deeply into focused topics.
Discussion: @pbsmediashift and New York Times
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
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.
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 …
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
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FCC: ‘No intention’ of muzzling press  —  The Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) is trying to reassure House Republicans that it has no plans to restrict the freedom of the press.  —  In a letter released Thursday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler told Republican leaders of the House Energy …
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
FCC wants to improve quality of closed captioning
Discussion: TVWeek.com
 
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Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Iran's Judiciary Closes a New Pro-Government Newspaper
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Karen Fratti / 10,000 Words:
National Journal Launches Document Library
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Bloomberg:
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Discussion: CBS News and Forbes
Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore Sun Media Group to buy City Paper
Washington Post:
Alison Coliagnese to become reader representative