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DCN’s must reads: week of August 1, 2019
August 1, 2019 | Curated by Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- Business Insider | Facebook just had an absolutely wild rollercoaster of a week. Here’s everything that happened. (7 min read)
- Bloomberg | Facebook’s Like Button Makes Websites Liable, Top EU Court Rules (2 min read)
- Digiday | ‘Value is a proxy’: Publishers are soliciting feedback from readers with one-question surveys (5 min read)
- Nieman Lab | The L.A. Times’ disappointing digital numbers show the game’s not just about drawing in subscribers — it’s about keeping them (12 min read)
- Buzzfeed News | There’s An Underground Economy Selling Links From The New York Times, BBC, CNN, And Other Big News Sites (5 min read)
- Baekdal / Plus | Publishers need to think about link-jacking too (16 min read)
- Bloomberg Law | Moran Tees Up Data Privacy Bill As Senate Effort Splinters (2 min read)
- What’s New in Publishing | Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30. This is what happens next. (2 min read)
- Nieman Lab | Apple’s podcast categories are on a brief vacation — and a reminder of how thin the industry’s infrastructure can be (3 min read)