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DCN’s must reads: week of August 9, 2018
August 9, 2018 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- CNET | Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify ban Infowars, touching off censorship debate (3 min read)
- Nieman Lab | What is a Scandinavian media company’s first-ever director of public policy up against? (13 min read)
- The New York Times | The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley (7 min read)
- Bloomberg | A German Publisher Is Winning the Internet (7 min read)
- Columbia Journalism Review | Should journalists and researchers get a special exemption from Facebook’s rules? (3 min read)
- The Lenfest Institute | Hold on there, pardner: Texas Monthly is running a test to stop readers who use ad-blockers (11 min read)
- The Guardian | ‘Just use cat videos’: New York Times boss wants Facebook to cut out news (6 min read)
- Recode | The tech industry needs to reckon with the dark side of advertising, WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg says (1h listen)