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DCN’s must reads: week of October 8, 2020
October 8, 2020 | 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 Times | House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’ and Urge Their Breakups (7 min read)
- The Financial Times | How podcasting became a new front in the streaming wars (6 min read)
- Vox Recode | Google and Facebook hate a proposed privacy law. News publishers should embrace it. (5 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | How Russia Today Skirts High-Tech Blockade to Reach U.S. Readers (9 min read)
- Vanity Fair | “Being Removed Is Life or Death”: Is Apple’s Fortnite Feud the Next Stage of the Techlash? (8 min read)
- Buzzfeed | The News Site Was Bogus. Facebook Still Let It Build A Real Audience. (5 min read)
- Business of Fashion | Coronavirus Is Rewiring the Symbiotic Relationship Between Brands and Media (5 min read)
- Digiday | ‘Quite cynical’: Publishers leery about Google’s $1 billion news licensing pot (5 min read)