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DCN’s must reads: week of May 2, 2019
May 2, 2019 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- NiemanLab | What does Luminary’s very bad week tell us about podcasters’ collective power? (17 min read)
- Reuters | U.S. lawmakers struggle to draft online privacy bill (4 min read)
- FP | Can the EU Save the Internet? (13 min read)
- Bloomberg | Local News in America Is Dying. Charity Might Save It (9 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | Online Ad Fraud Is Down, Study Finds—or at Least It’s Harder to Detect (2 min read)
- TechCrunch | Facebook accused of blocking wider efforts to study its ad platform (10 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | Why the Clock Is Running Out on Big Media Companies (4 min read)
- Bloomberg | Billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs Turned Her LLC Into a VC Machine (9 min read)
- Vanity Fair | As the Markup Implodes, Craig Newmark Learns How Media Really Works (8 min read)