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DCN’s must reads: week of January 25, 2024
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.
January 25, 2024 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- Variety | As Paramount, WB Discovery and Others Weigh M&A Options, Is More Consolidation Really the Answer to Hollywood’s Profit Problem? (13 min read)
- The New York Times | Billionaires Wanted to Save the News Industry. They’re Losing a Fortune. (6 min read)
- NBC | States turn their attention to regulating AI and deepfakes as 2024 kicks off (3 min read)
- Wired | Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them (5 min read)
- Bloomberg | Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains (7 min read)
- The New York Times | I Am Going to Miss Pitchfork, but That’s Only Half the Problem (5 min read)
- World Economic Forum | Defending truth (45 min view)