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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of August 7, 2025
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.
August 7, 2025 | Curated by Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCNConnect on
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- NiemanLab | The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI (11 min read)
- The Verge | Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same (5 min read)
- PressGazette | Why publishers should worry about growing reliance on Google Discover (5 min read)
- New York Magazine | SEO Is Dead. Say Hello to GEO. (10 min read)
- NiemanLab | President Donald Trump is again attacking the American press — this time not with fiery rally speeches or by calling the media “the enemy of the people,” but through the courts. (6 min read)
- Observer | How Sony Pictures ‘Won’ the Streaming Wars By Sitting Them Out (6 min read)
- Variety | Spike Lee, Adam McKay and 2,300 More WGA Members Sign Letter Blasting Trump’s ‘Authoritarian Assault’ on Free Speech (6 min read)
- Axios | Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down (3 min read)