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DCN’s must reads: week of February 25, 2021
February 25, 2021 | Curated by Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- CNN | Australian law is hailed as ‘a big win for the news business’ with ramifications around the world (3 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | Facebook’s Tussle With Australia Over News Is Just the Beginning (6 min read)
- CNN | ‘Thank God for The Texas Tribune’: Power crisis shines light on local news (6 min read)
- The Atlantic | The Government Needs to Find Big Tech a New Business Model (8 min read)
- Reuters | Exclusive: French antitrust investigators say Google breached its orders on talks with news publishers – sources (2 min read)
- AP | Microsoft, EU publishers seek Australia-style news payments (2 min read)
- Digiday | How The New York Times and CafeMedia have taken divergent approaches to complying with California’s privacy law (6 min read)
- MIT Technology Review | What we can learn from the Facebook-Australia news debacle (6 min read)
- Axios | Pandemic drives nonprofit media boom (2 min read)
- Reuters Institute | News site Stuff left Facebook. Seven months later, traffic is just fine and trust is higher (5 min read)
- The Verge | California can finally enforce its landmark net neutrality law, judge rules (1 min read)