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1:55 PM ET, August 19, 2015

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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Washington Post Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian steels himself for verdict as wife and mother fear acquittal unlikely  —  After 13 months in Iranian jail, Post reporter ‘steeling himself’ for verdict  —  Tuesday is visitors' day for Jason Rezaian, the day that Iranian authorities permit …
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Huffington Post Teams Up With Live Streaming Service YouNow on Weekly Show … The Huffington Post is rolling out a live weekly video series, called HuffPost Now, aimed at millennials through a partnership with the live streaming service YouNow.  —  YouNow lets people stream live video footage …
Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
NBCUniversal's investment in BuzzFeed and Vox could help expand the company's data-driven ad products  —  What NBCU's Investments in BuzzFeed, Vox Could Mean for Advertising  —  NBCU Could Gain Access to BuzzFeed's ‘Pound’ and Vox's ‘Chorus’  —  Even Small Businesses Are Ready for Marketing Automation
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan criticizes paper's Amazon story, says it needed more balance and context  —  Was Portrayal of Amazon's Brutal Workplace on Target?  —  Soon after The Times's massive takeout on the culture of Amazon's workplace ("Where overachievers go to feel bad …
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Local newspapers experiment with publishing video through Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices to compete with local TV news  —  How local papers are looking ‘over the top’ as part of a new model for video  —  The governor comes to Big Beaver Elementary.  A rescue crew pulls a body from the Ohio River.
Discussion: @calkinsdigital and @cgraves
Suzanne Kapner / Wall Street Journal:
Wal-Mart, Kohl's, and Sears cut back on newspaper circulars as retailers turn to digital, social, and radio marketing  —  Retailers Cut Back on Newspaper Circulars  —  Wal-Mart, Kohl's and Sears shift strategy; each reported sluggish sales for the second quarter
Gene Demby / Race : NPR:
How Black Reporters Report On Black Death  —  On an unbearably hot August afternoon last summer, I was walking along West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Mo., notebook in hand, when I ran into two good friends who were also on the clock, Joel Anderson of BuzzFeed and Jamelle Bouie of Slate.
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Lloyd's List to launch ‘Intelligence’ print magazine Sept. 7, will publish ten issues a year  —  Lloyd's List launches return to print two years after going digital-only  —  Shipping industry news title Lloyd's List is increasing its editorial staff and staging a return to print some two years after it went digital-only.
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Google Is Opening A YouTube Production Studio In Mumbai, India  —  There's good news for aspiring YouTube stars in India after Google announced its first YouTube Space for the country.  Located in Mumbai, the production facility — the second of its kind in Asia — will be hosted …
Martin Beck / Marketing Land:
Facebook passes Google as top referral source for large news sites for a second time, based on Parse.ly data  —  For Major Publishers, Facebook Referral Traffic Passes Google Again  —  Continuing the trend of social media referral traffic gains, Parse.ly data shows the social network pulling ahead …
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Committee for Advertising Practice releases guidance for UK video bloggers specifying paid content must be disclosed  —  Here are the new rules for video bloggers to tell their fans when they've been paid by advertisers  —  The body that writes the UK advertising code has released …
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Meet the young, fearless lawyer behind Gawker, Heather Dietrick  —  Meet the young, fearless lawyer behind Gawker  —  Journalists confront powerful people.  When those people strike back, it's good to know a lawyer.  That's especially true at Gawker Media, which takes particular glee …
Discussion: @kayelbee and @nicknotned
 
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Chad Swiatecki / Austin Business Journal:
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
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Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
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