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

• The Guardian | Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: ‘The system is failing’ (4 min read)
• Forrester | Predictions 2018: Who Will Win And Who Will Lose Across The Media Landscape (3 min read)
• Business Insider | Huge media companies like CBS and ESPN are banding together to fight Google and Facebook — but it may not be enough (5 min read)
• The Guardian | Russian hackers targeted UK media and telecoms firms, confirms spy chief (2 min read)
• Motherboard | If Facebook Actually Wants to Be Transparent, It Should Talk to Journalists (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Hey, Mark Zuckerberg: My Democracy Isn’t Your Laboratory (5 min read)
• FIPP | How subscriptions became a driver of profit at The Economist (5 min read)
• Campaign | Pendulum is swinging back to quality content, Kint says (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | Newsonomics: The New York Times’ Mark Thompson on regulating Facebook, global ambition, and when to stop the presses (forever) (27 min read)
• Press Gazette | FT editor Lionel Barber calls on ‘deeply flawed’ social media networks to ‘drop the pretense’ they are not media companies (3 min read)