/ An inside look at the business of digital content
DCN’s must reads: week of May 7, 2020
May 7, 2020 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- The Financial Times | Half of online ad spending goes to industry middlemen (3 min read)
- OneZero | Should Facebook and Google Have to Pay the Media? (11 min read)
- Brookings Institute | Trade secrets shouldn’t shield tech companies’ algorithms from oversight (3 min read)
- NiemanLab | Newsonomics: How will the pandemic panic reshape the local news industry? (18 min read)
- TechCrunch | No cookie consent walls — and no, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body (4 min read)
- MediaPost | How Brands Can #BackNotBlock Publishers (3 min read)
- Deadline | Pluto TV And Verizon Break Ground With Streaming Distribution Agreement (2 min read)