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7:20 PM ET, May 16, 2016

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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Source: Twitter will stop counting photos and links in the 140-character limit as soon as within next two weeks  —  Company said to make the change in next couple of weeks  —  CEO Jack Dorsey aims to make it easier to compose tweets  —  Twitter Inc. will soon stop counting photos and links …
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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Debra Lee, chairman and CEO of Viacom's Black Entertainment Television, joins Twitter's board  —  Debra Lee, who has been CEO of Viacom's Black Entertainment Television (BET) since 2005 and its chairman since 2006, has joined the board of Twitter.  She tweeted out the news earlier today.
David McCabe / The Hill:
Senior Trump aide Barry Bennett to represent the candidate at Mark Zuckerberg's meeting this Wednesday to discuss claims of Facebook bias  —  A senior aide to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump  —  's campaign team will attend a meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Ex-RedState blogger Erick Erickson says Facebook is more accepting of conservatives than Twitter, says Facebook drives significant traffic to his new site
Discussion: The Resurgent and The Hill
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
The New York Times search for a public editor is in its final stages, CJR editor-in-chief and publisher Elizabeth Spayd among those being considered  —  Veteran journalists Debra Adams Simmons and Elizabeth Spayd are said to be among the finalists.  —  NEW YORK — The New York Times is close …
Discussion: @coreyhutchins and @froomkin
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Interview with Obama freezes on Facebook Live; BuzzFeed redirects viewers to YouTube  —  Barack Obama, BuzzFeed and Facebook — It was supposed to be a high-profile showcase for new journalism from new technology with the new-media President.  —  Instead it became the most high-profile example yet of how live streaming can go wrong.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
As part of advertising campaign for TV show Preacher, AMC releases first five minutes of new series on Snapchat  —  AMC prides itself on the large number of young viewers who regularly watch its television shows.  Now, the network is trying to bring one of its shows to those young viewers who may not already be watching.
Discussion: Polygon and @mikeisaac
Teresa Mioli / Journalism in the Americas:
Manuel Torres González, editor in chief of Noticias MT, shot and killed in Veracruz, the sixth journalist killed this year in Mexico  —  Journalist Manuel Torres González, 45, was shot in the head from behind on May 14 after leaving state offices in the city of Poza Rica in northern Veracruz …
Patrick Foster / Telegraph:
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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Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
Supreme Court will rule Thursday on whether or not it will lift privacy injunction banning identification of man in celeb threesome story
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Ex-Charbeat CTO Alan Beaufour appointed SVP of engineering at the New York Times
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
The Undefeated, ESPN-owned site covering race and culture, to launch Tuesday
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
As ad sales decline The Hill, National Journal, and Roll Call look beyond the captive Beltway audience to expand digital reach
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Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
Bay Area media outlets including newspapers, TV and radio stations planning day of coordinated coverage on the homeless crisis next month
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
 

 
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Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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