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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of July 23, 2026
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.
July 23, 2026 | 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 Wall Street Journal | Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off. (4 min read)
- TechCrunch | Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved (2 min read)
- Press Gazette | Google search traffic to leading UK publishers set to halve by Q3 2027 (3 min read)
- The New York Times | Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed (6 min read)
- Digiday | In Graphic Detail: AI visibility is no longer about referral traffic (5 min read)
- The Current | The AI Effect, Part 2: The streaming wars are about AI now (3 min read)
- The Hollywood Reporter | Peter Thiel’s AI Tribunal Put Journalists on Trial. Now It’s Pivoted to Scoreboard Model (4 min read)
- New York Magazine | Can Trump’s DOJ Force the NY Times to Reveal Their Sources? (5 min read)