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DCN’s must reads: week of March 28, 2019
March 28, 2019 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- The New York Timex | Europe Adopts Tough New Online Copyright Rules Over Tech Industry Protests (6 min read)
- Nieman Lab | Apple News Plus is a fine way to read magazines, but a disappointment to anyone wishing for a real boost for the news business (17 min read)
- Digiday | ‘Bundles always dilute the brand’: Publishers grapple with Apple’s new subscription service (7 min read)
- The Washington Post | Apple is trying to be the future of news. Again. (5 min read)
- Financial Times | The social networks are publishers, not postmen (4 min read)
- Podnews | The end of open: BBC blocks its podcasts on Google (5 min read)
- BuzzFeed | This Giant Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users’ Batteries And Data By Running Hidden Video Ads In Android Apps (12 min read)
- MIT Technology Review | Russia wants to cut itself off from the global internet. Here’s what that really means. (9 min read)
- MediaPost | Marketing Today: DCN’s Jason Kint Discusses Facebook-Google Duopoly (34 min listen)