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10:40 PM ET, May 15, 2016

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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Facebook says it has invited “about a dozen” conservative leaders to meet Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, including Glenn Beck  —  “It would be interesting to look him in the eye.”  —  Mark Zuckerberg is hosting a summit for conservative leaders on Wednesday.  —  So says Glenn Beck, who says he will attend.
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Danah Boyd / Data & Society:
Zuckerberg's statement of Facebook neutrality is dangerous because all systems are biased, whether human or algorithmic  —  A pair of Gizmodo stories have prompted journalists to ask questions about Facebook's power to manipulate political opinion in an already heated election year.
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
SecureDrop use is growing in newsrooms, but security fears mean few will detail exactly how they use it  —  For newsrooms, the first rule about SecureDrop is you don't talk about SecureDrop — or not too much, anyway.  —  That's clear from a new report from Columbia's Tow Center for Journalism …
Discussion: @niemanlab, @niemanlab and GitBook
Christopher Heine / Adweek:
The Daily Mail says it posts 1,200 stories, 10K photos, and 650 videos a day, has 80M US visitors per month  —  While Daily Mail made a few product announcements at its Daily Content NewFronts presentation today, it was its data that stood out more than anything else.
Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Tidal claims 306M song streams from Beyoncé's Lemonade, 11M film streams in three weeks since release, 1.2M sign-ups including free trials in first week  —  As music streaming numbers continue to rise, the major services are engaged in an arms race that increasingly includes exclusivity windows for albums by superstar artists.
Discussion: Vanity Fair, The FADER and Fortune
Rahul Bhatia / Guardian:
How Facebook, oblivious to India's concerns, used heavy-handed tactics and failed with Free Basics  —  ntil Mark Zuckerberg arrived in a bright orange helicopter in October 2014, Chandauli had never seen a celebrity visitor.  One of 44,795 villages in the state of Rajasthan …
Lee Schafer / Star Tribune:
How Alden Global Capital, which controls Digital First Media, is harvesting the assets of St. Paul's Pioneer Press  —  The hedge fund that controls the Pioneer Press has apparently decided on one of the time-honored strategies to make money in a declining business.  —  It's called simply “harvest.”
Seb Joseph / The Drum:
CNN expands analytics for ads team to bring in higher ad spending, enable more targeted ads  —  CNN doesn't want to monetise news, it wants to monetise attention and plans to wrap this up in its first-party data to give to advertisers in order to justify the larger budgets it now wants.
David Samuels / New York Times:
David Samuels, author of controversial Ben Rhodes profile, responds to criticism  —  My interest in Ben Rhodes began with a photograph I saw from Senator Barack Obama's insurgent campaign for president in 2008.  The photograph showed a group of Obama's young speechwriters celebrating a victory.
John Koblin / New York Times:
Megyn Kelly, Contract Set to Expire Next Year, Is Primed for the Big Show  —  Barbara Walters is retired, Oprah Winfrey is running a network and Megyn Kelly sees an opening.  —  “It's there for the taking right now,” she said in a recent interview.  —  And what is there for the taking?
Tim Baysinger / Adweek:
Newly “safe for work” Playboy pushes into video with first-ever slate of 14 original shows  —  Playboy showed off its new, fully clothed self during its first-ever NewFronts presentation Friday afternoon at New York's Skylight Modern.  —  “This is the most exciting …
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Removal of Top Editors Signals Trouble for Independent Russian Paper  —  MOSCOW — Three senior editors at the media organization controlled by Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire and Brooklyn Nets owner, left their jobs on Friday, apparently victims of the Kremlin's ire for reporting …
 
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Serenity Caldwell / iMore:
Apple acknowledges reports of music files lost while using iTunes, plans update with more safeguards next week
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The Washington Post tests personalized “pop-up” newsletters to promote its big stories
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
 Earlier Picks: 
The Toast:
The Toast to close July 1 due to decreased revenues and too heavy a workload, archive will remain online
Matt Brian / Engadget:
BT to stream UEFA Champions League and Europa League finals on YouTube for free in the UK
Matthew Champion / BuzzFeed:
Alan Rusbridger steps down as chair of Guardian newspaper owner the Scott Trust