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4:40 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 …
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
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.
Discussion: @lukereuters and @joannauk
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.
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 …
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.
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  —  Supreme court to decide whether to lift ban on identification of celebrity in case likely to have far-reaching consequences
 
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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
Discussion: @mikeisaac
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Ex-Charbeat CTO Alan Beaufour appointed SVP of engineering at the New York Times
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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
Discussion: @tackettdc
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
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