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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of November 13, 2025
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.
November 13, 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 | “Biased,” “boring,” “chaotic,” and “bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report finds (5 min read)
- The New York Times | A.I. Sweeps Through Newsrooms, but Is It a Journalist or a Tool? (7 min read)
- The Athletic | Illegal streaming: Research reveals rise in piracy and desire for scrapping of 3pm blackout (5 min read)
- Engaget | Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button (1 min read)
- Wired | Welcome to Big Tech’s ‘Age of Extraction’ (8 min read)
- The Financial Times | EU readies fresh investigation into Google over news publisher rankings (2 min read)
- NiemanLab | BBC resignations are a symbol of mounting pressure on public broadcasters in the Trump era (5 min read)
- .coda | The Werewolf game: an interview with Google’s former news chief Richard Gingras (41 min read)