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DCN’s must reads: week of February 20, 2020
February 20, 2020 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy![](https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/perspective_resized.jpg)
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- The Financial Times | EU rejects Facebook’s proposals for online regulation (4 min read)
- Vice | Mark Zuckerberg Is Literally Begging Europe to Regulate Facebook: ‘It Will Be Better for Everyone’ (4 min read)
- Axios | National newspapers thrive while local outlets struggle to survive (4 min read)
- Fast Company | The days of Netflix reaping the benefits of cord cutting may be over (1 min read)
- Digiday | ‘Not a clear commitment’: European publishers see modest gains from platform subscription services (3 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | Google in Talks to Pay Publishers for News (4 min read)
- The Drum | Adtech, eSports and OTT: where are marketers investing their money for the next decade? (14 min read)
- Digiday | How Condé Nast Entertainment plans to use its five new studios to develop franchises (3 min read)
- The Washington Post | Mass propaganda used to be difficult, but Facebook made it easy (8 min read)