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DCN’s must reads: week of October 31, 2019
October 31, 2019 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- The New York Times | The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads (5 min read)
- Bloomberg Businessweek | The Battle of the Streaming Services Is the Show That Will Never End (5 min read)
- CNBC | Facebook’s new approach to journalism is a well-timed distraction from antitrust scrutiny (6 min read)
- Axios | Chasing huge subscriber goals, streamers give it away for free (3 min read)
- Fast Company | These YouTube alternatives offer children and parents a digital safe space—but there’s a catch (14 min read)
- CNBC | AT&T, Disney and Comcast have very different plans for the streaming wars — here’s what they’re doing and why (9 min read)
- ZDNet | The failure of advertising is creating a greater digital divide (5 min read)
- New York | What’s Left of Condé Nast Two years after Si Newhouse died (and Graydon Carter left), Anna Wintour and a new CEO map out the future they can afford. (40 min read)