Mediagazer: Venezuela says CNN can stay, a day after saying ‘get out’ (CNN)

1:10 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.

Discussion: CNN, @romustgo, MiamiHerald.com, US Department of State, @jorgeramosnews, @statedept, Global Voices, @tv6tnt and Business Insider

Natalie Kitroeff / The Lede:
Venezuela Battles Media, Social and Otherwise, to Restrict Protest Coverage

Discussion: New York Times, The Verge, Feministing and Mashable

Frank Bajak / Associated Press:
Activists say Venezuela is blocking walkie-talkie app Zello and websites Pastebin and NTN24

Discussion: Politico, @wexler and @nancypelosi

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 …

Discussion: @kgosztola, @emptywheel, emptywheel, Associated Press, USA Today and @drudge

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

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Direct connection between Comcast and Netflix networks suggests peering agreement reached — Breaking: 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

Jim Romenesko:

Report: Baltimore City Paper staffers will lose their jobs, but could be rehired by the Sun — Fern Shen reports Baltimore City Paper staffers met Thursday afternoon with their new boss at the Sun and were told that everyone loses their jobs, but could be rehired.

Discussion: bizjournals, Baltimore Brew, @camilledodero, @maura, @carr2n and The Huffington Post

Tom Scocca / Gawker:
Baltimore Is One Step Closer to Being a Zero-Newspaper Town

Discussion: @objectguerilla, @johnmcquaid, @tomscocca, @crash_landers, @jackshafer, @max_read, Digital Media Wire and Baltimore Sun

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Is There Any Escape From ‘Recommended for You’? — Based on what The New York Times thinks I'm interested in reading, I am not a fun person. — “Recommended for You,” which tracks readers' habits and predicts their interests, finds me especially interested in the troubles of Gov. Chris Christie …

Discussion: @justinbrookman, @mathewi, @sulliview, @dangillmor and JIMROMENESKO.COM

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.

Discussion: Poynter, NPPA, @fieldproducer, The Huffington Post, White House News … and Politico

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 …

Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Comcast's Web of Lobbying and Philanthropy

Discussion: @nickjrusso, @nickconfessore, @amychozick, @tackettdc and @brianstelter

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 …

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Proposed FCC study of news organizations sparks outcry

Discussion: Media Channel, Fox News, Poynter, Hot Air, The Switch, The Daily Caller, Hit & Run, Los Angeles Times, Broadcasting & Cable, Mediaite, Mother Jones, Erik Wemple, @jondelano, The Verge, The Newspaper Guild and The Hill

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 …

Discussion: VentureBeat, @pkafka, Gigaom and @zseward

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.

Discussion: @moorehn, @wesleylowery and @jaredbkeller

Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:

Garrick Utley, Former NBC Anchor and Foreign Correspondent, Dies at 74 — Garrick Utley, a former anchor for NBC News who for many years was one of a rare breed in television news reporting, a full-time foreign correspondent, died on Thursday night at his home in Manhattan. He was 74.

Discussion: Robert Feder, Capital New York, CNN, @danielalpert, Gawker, @fitzbeat, @glennthrush, @marysolcastro, @donwildman and @louiseslaughter

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Southern Living Puts its Name on Branded Communities — Diehard fans of Time Inc.'s Southern Living can live in a Southern Living-branded house filled with Southern Living-branded décor, thanks to the brand's formidable stable of brand extensions. There are home goods (furniture …

Discussion: @steve_katz

Leo Mirani / Quartz:

Turns out Twitter is even more politically polarized than you thought — This is what Twitter looks like when two groups with different political views talk about the same thing: — As part of a new study on Twitter's network structures, the Pew Research Center and the Social Media Research …

Discussion: @gregdklein, SocialTimes and AppNewser

Pew Internet:
Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters

Discussion: PBS, Des Moines Register, Business Insider, Al Jazeera America, @accenturesocial, CNET, Washington Post, @jesseholcomb and The Technology Chronicles

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 …

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 …

David Bauder / Associated Press:

Jimmy Kimmel's Sochi wolf video hoax attracts criticism from media executives, others — KIMMEL'S WOLF HOAX: ABC NEWS KNEW AHEAD OF TIME — ABC News received advance warning of Jimmy Kimmel's prank about a wolf supposedly prowling the athletes' village in Sochi but didn't steer …

Discussion: Mediaite, @seangentille and Re/code

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Purdue clears police who detained student journalist — Police at Purdue University were within their rights to detain a student journalist and seize his camera, an investigation led by the school's police chief determined. — Hayleigh Colombo and Dave Bangert of the (Lafayette, Ind.) …

Discussion: jconline.com

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Charter CEO Rutledge: After Losing Time Warner Cable, We're Still Interested in Acquiring Subscribers — Charter Communications may have been blindsided by Comcast's $45 billion bid last week for Time Warner Cable — topping Charter's hostile takeover offer — but president and CEO Tom Rutledge …

Discussion: USA Today, MediaPost, Reuters, Business Insider, Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg and multichannel.com/rss

David Gelles / DealBook:

Barnes & Noble Receives Conditional Offer — G Asset Management, a little-known investment firm, offered on Thursday to acquire 51 percent of Barnes & Noble in a deal that would value the bookseller's shares at $22 apiece. — Barnes & Noble stock jumped 10 percent on the news in midday trading on Friday …

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, CNBC, Publishers Weekly, Re/code and Wall Street Journal