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DCN’s must reads: week of March 29, 2018
March 29, 2018 | Curated by DCNHere are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- Bloomberg Businessweek | How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet (18 min read)
- NBC News | Apple CEO Tim Cook slams Facebook: Privacy ‘is a human right, it’s a civil liberty’ (4 min read)
- AdExchanger | Zenith: More Money Goes To Ad Tech Than To Actual Media (5 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | Facebook and Google Face Emboldened Antagonists: Big Advertisers (4 min read)
- Buzzfeed | Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different. (9 min read)
- The Financial Times | Facebook and Google: platforms or publishers? (48 min listen)
- Nieman Lab | Recirculate! Vox Media’s new structure for story packages gives readers context (and helps them stick around) (5 min read)
- Axios | Wild West of digital marketing finally gets reined in (3 min read)
- Poynter | Why paying attention to the homepage will pay off (5 min read)
- Nieman Lab | Newsonomics: Will Facebook’s troubles finally cure publishers of platformitis? (9 min read)
- Wired | Children’s YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism (15 min read)