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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:
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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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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Roger Yu / USA Today:
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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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
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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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 …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
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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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
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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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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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 — SAN FRANCISCO — As the editor in chief of The San Francisco Chronicle, Audrey Cooper has overseen countless stories on homelessness.
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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
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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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.
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