BP Member Lichele says, “This group is for respectable reporters, journalists, commentators…”

From Michael Fleming at Variety.com: Hours after the inauguration of President Barack Obama, outgoing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed with WMA to pursue opportunities that will likely include books and lectures.

From Brian Stelter at The New York Times: With less than two weeks to go until a historic presidential <a title="Recent and archival news about presidential inaugurations." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/presidents_and_presidency_us/inaugurations/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">inauguration</a>, the nation’s television networks are finalizing ambitious coverage plans, but the camera platforms will be more crowded than usual.

From Habib Battah at Al Jazeera: The images of two women on the front page of an edition of <em>The Washington Post</em> last week illustrates how mainstream US media has been reporting Israel's war on Gaza.

LOS ANGELES – Millions of Time Warner Cable customers won’t lose their access to MTV and 18 other channels after the cable giant reached an agreement early Thursday with media conglomerate Viacom Inc.

SAN FRANCISCO — W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as “Deep Throat” 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president, has died. He was 95.