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

• Wired | YouTube Debuts Plan to Promote and Fund ‘Authoritative’ News (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How Google and Facebook Are Monopolizing Ideas (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | Facebook is slapped with first fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Enough with the “Netflix for audio.” Podcast companies should take a cue from meditation apps instead (11 min read)
• MediaPost | Apple, Alphabet CEOs Questioned By Congress About Tracking Data (2 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | European Networks Are Joining Forces to Take On Netflix and Amazon (8 min read)
• AdExchanger | Washington Post Builds Tech That Dynamically Inserts Ads Into Podcasts (2 min read)
• The Guardian | Electoral law has been broken – this is a fight for the soul of our democracy (10 min read)
• Digiday | ‘They’re passing the liability onto us’: Publishers balk at Publicis Media’s new GDPR requirements (6 min read)
• Variety | Rise: Why China’s Internet is Bigger… And Different (3 min read)