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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of September 11, 2025
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.
September 11, 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:
- The New York Times | Why Google Got Off Easy (4 min read)
- NBC News | AI company Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with authors (2 min read)
- Bloomberg Law | Anthropic Judge Blasts $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (4 min read)
- The Verge | The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up (4 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | Brendan Carr Channeling Trump’s Showman Instincts to Overhaul FCC (6 min read)
- Forbes | A Huge Google Change Coming ‘Soon’ Should Terrify News Publishers (4 min read)
- The Guardian | Global press freedom suffers sharpest fall in 50 years, report finds (3 min read)
- The New York Times | Shows Created by Women Rise Sharply, but Only on Streaming TV (2 min read)
- PressGazette | AI bots bombard publisher websites with ‘no meaningful value exchange’(6 min read)
- NiemanLab | From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline (18 min read)