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DCN’s must reads: week of August 13, 2020
August 13, 2020 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- Digiday | ‘A shady move’: Apple News+ Safari change automatically redirecting traffic to itself infuriates publishers (4 min read)
- The Washington Post | Disinformation for profit: How a Florida ‘dealmaker’ turns conservative outrage into cash (9 min read)
- McKinsey & Company | Building a digital New York Times: CEO Mark Thompson (19 min read)
- Reuters | U.S. judge ends decades-old movie theater rules governing Hollywood (2 min read)
- Poynter | The pick is in. It’s Kamala Harris. Now how will the media cover her? The attacks on Harris will come. Some will be fair. Some will not. How the media handles the unfair ones will determine just how far we’ve come. (8 min read)
- GeekWire | Filing shows where Microsoft is really making its money; reveals M&A spending; adds Netflix, Hulu, Tencent to list of rivals (4 min read)
- ZDNet | Nine in ten Americans view data privacy as a human right, according to new report (3 min read)
- NBC News | Sensitive to claims of bias, Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages (8 min read)