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DCN’s must reads: week of May 19, 2022
May 19, 2022 | Curated by Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- Gizmodo | We’re Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here’s How Facebook Killed News Feed Fixes Over Fear of Conservative Backlash. (8 min read)
- Financial Times | Hollywood braced for new age of austerity after streaming splurge (5 min read)
- Digiday | How Microsoft plans to storm adland: ‘Attribution, CTV, in-game ads and potential M&A’ (3 min read)
- NiemanReports | Why Newsrooms Are Collaborating to Take on Ambitious Reporting Projects (15 min read)
- The Drum | Disney+ has the power to ‘determine the future’ of streaming ads… and it just did (3 min read)
- PressGazette | BBC digital director: ‘Social media platforms are often working against us’ (3 min read)
- Journalism.co.uk | Whether readers or brands pay for your content, data is central to the strategy (4 min read)
- NiemanLab | Facebook promised to remove “sensitive” ads. Here’s what it left behind. (6 min read)
- FIPP | Media Unscripted: latest episode with Jason Kint of Digital Content Next now available on general release (36 min listen)