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3:45 PM ET, February 21, 2016

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Noah Robischon / Fast Company:
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti and President Greg Coleman on how company uses data and local knowledge to tailor and leverage international coverage  —  BuzzFeed's Global Domination Plan: The Techniker Has Been Informed  —  BuzzFeed is expanding across the globe—and tackling one of advertising's greatest challenges.
BBC:
Turkey releases Syrian journalist Rami Jarrah  —  A Syrian journalist who was arrested on Wednesday in Turkey has been released without charge and with no explanation as to why he was detained, he announced on Facebook.  —  However Rami Jarrah said in his post that his detention appeared to be related to his work in Syria.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Turkey detains Syrian journalist Rami Jarrah, co-founder of ANA Press
Discussion: New York Times and Observer
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
SiriusXM succeeds financially as other radio and digital music outlets struggle, but internet in cars poses a threat  —  SiriusXM Fights to Dominate the Dashboard of the Connected Car  —  On the 36th floor of a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper, the actors Ice Cube and Kevin Hart joshed …
Discussion: @nytimesbusiness
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Ex-Buzzfeed president Jon Steinberg launches Cheddar, a video streaming startup for millennials covering CNBC-like topics, with $3M in funding  —  Former BuzzFeed president Jon Steinberg launches Cheddar, a CNBC for millennials, with $3 million in funding  —  Jon Steinberg …
CNN:
Case in front of US Supreme Court raises First Amendment questions after student rapper who wrote protest song gets suspended from high school  —  Killer Mike: Free speech — unless it's rap?  —  Killer Mike and Stephen Colbert talk race in America  — Mike Render, Erik Nielson …
Gregg Carlstrom / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Benjamin Netanyahu has quietly extended his reach to every corner of Israeli media  —  What's driving Israel's media crackdown?  —  In the past few months, a veteran Israeli radio presenter lost half his airtime because he asked a top security official a tough question.
Discussion: @davidsheen, @cameraorg and @davidsheen
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Pressure builds for Viacom to sell assets as stock falls, confidence in Dauman falters; analyst thinks company could get $5.5B for Paramount, $11.1B for MTV  —  Should Viacom Sell Paramount?  Analyst Pressure Builds  —  EMAIL ME  —  CEO Philippe Dauman may need to act soon as the stock sinks …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Viacom participated in Roku's last funding round, which brought in $45.5M  —  Viacom Invests in Roku  —  Viacom has joined the ranks of big media and TV companies investing in Roku, the Web video streaming hardware and software company.  —  The cable programmer participated …
Discussion: Forbes and Variety
Mark Toner / INMA:
How Dallas Morning News used acquisitions to expand into content marketing, event businesses  —  Realising it could not build an in-house, large-scale, multi-channel marketing presence as fast as it needed, The Dallas Morning News opted to acquire existing successful businesses.
Jeremy Kessel / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter transparency report: in the last 6 months, copyright takedown notices were up 89% to 35K, requests for account information increased 27%  —  Providing more #transparency into legal requests to remove content  —  Since our first transparency report was published in 2012 …
Katie Sanders / PolitiFact:
Politifact expands to its 16th state, North Carolina, partnering with The News & Observer in Raleigh  —  Coming soon: PolitiFact North Carolina  —  Sorry, North Carolina politicians, the Truth-O-Meter is on its way to the Tar Heel State.  —  Today we announce the creation …
Alex Weprin / Politico:
SEC filing: Time Inc. expects continued editorial streamlining, is exploring over-the-top video network for People, Entertainment Weekly  —  Time Inc. anticipates more restructuring in 2016  —  Time Inc. says that it will continue to restructure and consolidate its business units and products …
 
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Garrett Reim / Los Angeles Business Journal stories:
Issues-based political media startup, Attn: Inc., founded by Jarrett Moreno and Matthew Segal, raises $18.6M, led by Evolution Media Partners
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Pressure on Katie Couric to deliver for Yahoo amid cutbacks
Discussion: @mathewi and FishbowlNY
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Cox is shutting down Flare services: remote storage, video game service FlarePlay, and Flare Kids, a free video app, because it was not able to monetize them
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon Revamps ‘Skinny’ FiOS TV Bundles After Spats With ESPN, Others
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Richard Spencer / The Times:
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has become a superstar in China with tourism around his origin story, as DeepSeek proves an unexpected boon for President Xi

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Google's Gemma 3 and Cohere's Command A, which require just one or two Nvidia AI chips to run, hint at an industry-wide push for more efficient AI software

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
21Shares plans to liquidate two actively managed bitcoin and ether futures ETFs, following $1.66B in outflows from US-listed spot bitcoin ETFs this month

 
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