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

• The New York Times | Tackling the Internet’s Central Villain: The Advertising Business (9 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek | The iPad Lost Years for Apple’s Media Partners (4 min read)
• Wired | Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They’d Be (6 min read)
• The Intercept | The only place seemingly unconcerned with Big Tech’s concentrated power is the agency that might be able to do something about it (8 min read)
• The New York Times | An Ad Executive Often in the Vanguard Peers Into the Future (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook (4 min read)
• Axios | The local-national news divide on Google and Facebook (2 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Twitter Is Sending More Clicks To Publishers As Facebook Sends Less, New Data Show (2 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | Jonah Peretti: Everything is fine (8 min read)