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10:25 AM ET, May 16, 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.
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
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 …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
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 …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
AT&T buys Quickplay, will use it to power three new DirecTV Internet-Video 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.
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.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and SI.com
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  —  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 …
Discussion: @tackettdc
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.
Discussion: @futureboy, @lacci and LA Observed
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
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.
 
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