Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• The New York Times | News Outlets to Seek Bargaining Rights Against Google and Facebook (7 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Playing defense’: Allied or not, news orgs face uphill battle against the duopoly (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How Antitrust Undermines Press Freedom (3 min read)
• PubMatic | Let’s Be Clear: The Transparency Debate Is About Control (4 min read)
• McClatchy DC | Trump-Russia investigators probe Jared Kushner-run digital operation (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign (15 min read)
• Venture Beat | Study: Bots have turned Twitter into a powerful political disinformation platform (3 min read)
• Digiday | Facebook is getting ready to test paid subscriptions with publications (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | WHCA President Jeff Mason: Trump White House asked me to backstab journo-peers (3 min read)
• Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism | Pay Models in European News (9 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Views can happen by accident’: Publishers are thinking more about watch time — and YouTube (4 min read)