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DCN’s must reads: week of January 28, 2021
January 28, 2021 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- The Financial Times | Big Tech’s reckoning over paying for news (3 min read)
- CNBC | SPAC boom could finally provide an exit ramp for digital publishers like Buzzfeed and Vice Media (8 min read)
- Axios | The podcast business is booming, but few are making money (3 min read)
- Variety | How Kids Television Became the Most Heated Front in the Streaming Wars (14 min read)
- Bloomberg | Hulu, Peacock to Share Streaming Rights to ‘Modern Family’ (2 min read)
- Local News Initiative | Medill Survey Finds News Media’s Money Worries Overwhelming, but Few See Ads as Best Answer (7 min read)
- Recode | Big Tech nemesis Lina Khan is gaining traction for top Biden antitrust role (4 min read)
- The New York Times | What We Learned From Apple’s New Privacy Labels (7 min read)
- Vox | Poll: Most Americans want to break up Big Tech (3 min read)
- TechCrunch | Facebook News launches in the UK, the first international market for its curated news portal (4 min read)