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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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Gannett ups offer to buy Tribune to $15/share, valuing company at about $864M including debt — Gannett Co., which owns USA TODAY and more than 100 local news properties nationwide, said Monday it raised its offer to buy Tribune Publishing Co. to $15 per share, dialing up the pressure …
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Facebook's video ads now available on third-party sites like Daily Mail and Mashable via Facebook Audience Network, can now appear on both desktop and mobile — Move ratchets up competition with rival Google and other online ad players — Facebook is now selling video ads on behalf of other companies …
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VentureBeat and Adweek


43 percent of social media users don't know where the stories they read originally appeared — With publishers under pressure to distribute their content straight to social media platforms, the nagging question for many of them is what impact this has on their brands.
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@lukereuters and @joannauk


Comcast's FreeWheel unit buys French video ad tech startup StickyAds.tv; source says for at least $100M — Comcast has acquired France-based ad video tech company StickyAds.tv, Recode's Peter Kafka first reported on Sunday evening. — Business Insider confirmed the acquisition with a source …
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Marketwire, Variety and Press Association


Sources: BBC working on subscription streaming service to rival Netflix, dubbed Britflix, delivered via iPlayer; ITV and NBC Universal are involved — The BBC is to push ahead with plans to launch a British rival to Netflix, after getting the go-ahead from the government to develop a new subscription streaming service.
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Guardian, TechCrunch, Guardian, The Drum, The Verge, @rafat, Business Insider, Variety and @patrickfoster2


Supreme Court will rule Thursday on whether or not it will lift privacy injunction banning identification of man in celeb threesome story — Supreme court to decide whether to lift ban on identification of celebrity in case likely to have far-reaching consequences


The Undefeated, ESPN-owned site covering race and culture, to launch Tuesday — The Undefeated, ESPN's long-gestating website on race and sports, is expected to finally come to life on Tuesday morning, nearly three years after the media giant conceived it.
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FishbowlNY and SI.com


Ex-Charbeat CTO Alan Beaufour appointed SVP of engineering at the New York Times — Allan Beaufour, the former chief technology officer at web analytics company Chartbeat, has been appointed senior vice president of engineering at The New York Times. — Beaufour, who will be responsible …


AT&T buys Quickplay, will use it to power three new DirecTV streaming services later in 2016; terms not disclosed — AT&T is acquiring Quickplay Media, a provider of Internet-video streaming services, which it will use to launch three over-the-top DirecTV services later in 2016.
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Home Media Magazine and Fortune


As ad sales decline The Hill, National Journal, and Roll Call look beyond the captive Beltway audience to expand digital reach — WASHINGTON — When Neetzan Zimmerman arrived at The Hill as its first director of audience development in January 2015, he found a publication largely unchanged since …
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Bay Area media outlets including newspapers, TV and radio stations planning day of coordinated coverage on the homeless crisis next month — SAN FRANCISCO — As the editor in chief of The San Francisco Chronicle, Audrey Cooper has overseen countless stories on homelessness.
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