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DCN’s must reads: week of January 24, 2019
January 24, 2019 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafyHere are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- Variety | Can Hollywood’s Biggest Media Companies Avoid Getting Crushed by Debt? (15 min read)
- Digiday | Publishers see PR behind Google’s news and search tests in response to the new EU copyright directive (4 min read)
- The Financial Times | Davos tiptoes around the questions of Big Tech governance (5 min read)
- The New York Times | If Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Talk, Britain Is Waiting (5 min read)
- Ars Technica | Why Silicon Valley’s “growth at any cost” is the new “unsafe at any speed” (4 min read)
- Deadline | Media Giants Will Pause Merger Mania After CBS-Viacom, Per Wall Street Analysts: “You Need A Motivated Seller” (4 min read)
- Vanity Fair | The Ever-Increasing Cost of Streaming (4 min read)
- Axios | Users rely on traditional news amid misinformation crisis (2 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | Condé Nast to Put All Titles Behind Paywalls by Year-End (4 min read)