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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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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Iran tried to stop Jason Rezaian's wife leaving the country with him, according to his brother — Jason Rezaian's brother: Iranians ‘continued to manipulate’ until very end — Jason Rezaian's departure from Iran, after 545 days behind bars, was delayed when Iranian officials tried to stop his wife …
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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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Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times:
Sean Penn says he's ‘sad about the state of journalism’ in ‘60 Minutes’ interview — Charlie Rose, left, with actor Sean Penn during an interview in Santa Monica about Penn's meeting with Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The interview aired Sunday on “60 Minutes.”
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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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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump May Love Good Press, But His Campaign Is The Most Hostile To Reporters — Secret Service denies enforcing press restrictions, though some agents have appeared to do just that. — NEW YORK — When a presidential candidate steps off the stage at a rally, reporters covering …
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Chava Gourarie / Columbia Journalism Review:
How using models, simulations, and game-like features can help explanatory journalism — Could ‘explorable explanations’ help tell a new kind of story? — Newsrooms have become increasingly focused on interactive journalism and creative graphics as they look for new ways to progress storytelling in the digital age.
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James Warren / Poynter:
Interview with Steve Brill, co-founder of Press Plus, the company that helped newspapers with paywalls and meters, on paying for journalism, new media, and more — Newspaper bosses ‘paralyzed’ by change, clueless about paid content, says Steve Brill — A stumbling newspaper industry …
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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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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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