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Iran frees Post reporter Jason Rezaian, 4 other Americans, officials say — VIENNA — Iran released Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and three other detained Iranian Americans on Saturday in exchange for the freedom of seven people imprisoned or charged in the United States …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Washington Post editors Martin Baron and Douglas Jehl traveled to Germany to meet freed reporter Jason Rezaian on his way home — Jason Rezaian is on his way home — Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian is free from Iranian custody and on the way to a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Here's Why We Held The Story On The U.S.-Iranian Prisoner Exchange — In early fall, HuffPost foreign affairs reporter Jessica Schulberg landed a hell of a scoop: a State Department official was willing to talk on the record about the most sensitive of diplomatic operations …
Washington Post:
Freeing a reporter: Secret diplomatic talks and private back channels — American officials were adamant. The deal they had reached with Iran to free imprisoned Americans, including Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, had always included his Iranian wife. Rezaian, they knew, would never leave Tehran without her.
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos calls NBC's audience projections remarkably inaccurate and irrelevant because Netflix does not rely on advertisers — Netflix's Ted Sarandos Reacts to NBC Outing His Ratings: “Remarkably Inaccurate Data” — “I hope they didn't spend any money on it.”
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Karl Bode / Techdirt:
Netflix Pretends It Will Crackdown On VPNs Just Days After Admitting It's Futile To Do So — For a few years now, broadcasters have whined endlessly about the use of VPNs to access Netflix in markets where the streaming service had yet to launch. You'll recall that Australian broadcasters …
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Wall Street Journal:
As Netflix expands globally, local and regional rivals discuss banding together to outbid it on content rights — Netflix's Global Growth Faces New Threats — Rivals abroad band together as competition at home intensifies, putting fresh pressure on the streaming giant
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South China Morning Post:
Missing Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai appears on Chinese TV, says he turned himself in over 2003 crime for which he received suspended sentence — Missing Hong Kong bookseller appears on state television, claiming he turned himself in over 2003 drink-driving death
Voice of America:
Airstrike in Yemen Kills Freelance Journalist Working for VOA — Freelance Yemeni journalist Almigdad Mojalli was killed Sunday morning in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition on rebel-held Sana'a while on assignment for Voice of America. — Mojalli, a freelance journalist for VOA …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How Slate, The Washington Post, Bloomberg fight ad blocking — Ad blocking has gone mainstream. With 85 percent of digital publishers' revenue coming from advertising, the trend has led to fear and finger-pointing but no consensus on how to combat the problem, which is complicated by the fact …
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Kevin Tofel / ZDNet:
Alexa can now read Kindle books aloud from an Amazon Echo for free — You won't get the tone of a professional voice actor, but Alexa can read your Kindle books aloud: Best of all, there's no charge. — With so much recent focus on using an Amazon Echo to control smart home devices …
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Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:
AOL considering changes to its brand, including a name change, to better reflect properties like Huffington Post, TechCrunch, ad platforms, CMO Allie Kline says — AOL's identity crisis: The company may ditch the ‘AOL’ brand — Verizon-owned AOL has an image problem.
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