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6:55 PM ET, January 17, 2016

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Washington Post:
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.
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 …
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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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
Discussion: @whatthebit
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
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 …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Alastair Reid / First Draft:
Knight Foundation-funded prototype tool Verified Pixel aims to automate the process of verifying images in the news  —  Meet Verified Pixel: A ‘visual spellcheck’ for verifying images in news  —  It seems every major news story now brings with it a minefield of fake pictures for newsrooms to sort through …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How Al Día, Philadelphia's Spanish-language newspaper, is adapting to a bilingual world  —  Philadelphia has one of the country's most vibrant Chinatowns, and as new Chinese restaurants and Chinese-owned businesses open, many have turned to the city's Latino community for new employees.
Dillon Baker / MediaShift:
Q&A with Glenn Greenwald on surviving as a freelancer, online investigative journalism, and nonprofit news organizations  —  Glenn Greenwald Talks Freelancing, Future of Investigative Journalism  —  It's fair to say that the Edward Snowden leaks, which revealed top-secret …
Discussion: @mediashiftorg and @mediashiftorg
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Working with young reporters, City Bureau is telling the story of police misconduct in Chicago  —  The Chicago Police Department has come under national scrutiny in recent weeks after a police officer was charged with murdering a black teenager, Laquan McDonald.
Mark Coatney:
Yahoo should embrace Tumblr as a content platform, adding revenue sharing for partners  —  How Tumblr Can Save Yahoo  —  There's a pony in there somewhere, and its name is Tumblr  —  The short answer is, no, of course, nothing can save Yahoo.  A year from now things will certainly look very different in Sunnyvale.
 
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Henry Mance / Financial Times:
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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
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