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DCN’s must reads: week of February 2, 2017
February 2, 2017 | Curated by DCN
Here are some of the best media industry stories our team has read so far this week:
- The New York Times | In Race Against Fake News, Google and Facebook Stroll to the Starting Line (5 min read)
- Vanity Fair | Fake News Is About To Get Even Scarier Than You Ever Dreamed (8 min read)
- Business Insider | Snapchat is reportedly seeking $200 million commitments from ad agencies — here’s what that means for its IPO (4 min read)
- Business Journals L.A. | Snapchat not a great deal for publishers (1 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | Verizon Exploring Combination With Cable Firm Charter Communications | 4 min read
- Business Insider | Ad blocker usage is up 30% — and a popular method publishers use to thwart it isn’t working (4 min read)
- Digiday | ‘Platforms are not forever’: Hearst’s Troy Young on platform-publisher relations (4 min read)
- TechCrunch | Instagram Stories is stealing Snapchat’s users (10 min read)
- AdExchanger | P&G’s Pritchard: ‘We Don’t Want To Waste Time And Money On A Crappy Media Supply Chain’ (3 min read)
- Mediatel | European Commission proposal will kill third-party cookies (5 min read)
- The Washington Post | More facts, fewer pundits: Here’s how the media can regain the public’s trust (4 min read)
- min | Profiting Within a Duopoly is the Challenge of 2017 (4 min read)