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7:20 PM ET, February 21, 2016

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 Top News: 
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.
Emily Bell / Guardian:
As distribution moves to platforms like Facebook and carriers implement ad blocking, news websites are in danger of losing control of their business  —  As publishers lose control, are newspaper websites a dead parrot?  —  Adblocking and the power of platforms such as Facebook threaten to block the pipes that lead to readers
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 …
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: @robsilver and @nytimesbusiness
Ahmed Aboulenein / Reuters:
Egypt jails author for two years over sexually explicit novel  —  An Egyptian court has sentenced an author to two years in jail for public indecency after excerpts of his sexually explicit novel were published in a literary newspaper.  —  A chapter from Ahmed Naji's novel Istikhdam al-Hayat …
Discussion: BBC and Al Bawaba
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 …
Discussion: @whatthebit
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Pressure on Katie Couric to deliver for Yahoo amid cutbacks  —  Yahoo!'s round of cutbacks this week is putting renewed pressure on Katie Couric, the global news anchor who is pulling in $10 million a year.  —  There was grumbling in the ranks recently, several sources said, as Yahoo! …
Discussion: @mathewi and FishbowlNY
 
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Mark Toner / INMA:
How Dallas Morning News used acquisitions to expand into content marketing, event businesses
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
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
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon Revamps ‘Skinny’ FiOS TV Bundles After Spats With ESPN, Others
Discussion: Engadget and Ad Age
Axegrinder / Press Gazette:
Huffington Post Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hull suggests unpaid articles are more authentic than paid-for stories, which is “something to be proud of”
Discussion: Wordyard