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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of May 8, 2025
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies
May 8, 2025 | Curated by Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCNConnect on
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Urges Breakup of Google Ad Businesses (2 min read)
- Bloomberg | Trump Plans to Tax Movies. Here’s How It Will Impact Hollywood (3 min read)
- The Hollywood Reporter | “Everyone Loses”: Trump’s Movie Tariffs Plan Catches Hollywood Off Guard (4 min read)
- The New York Times | Newsom Asks Trump to Work With Him on $7.5 Billion Tax Credit for Hollywood (7 min read)
- The Hollywood Reporter | Bernie Sanders Urges Shari Redstone Not to Settle ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit (3 min read)
- The Washington Post | Public media ready to fight ‘unlawful’ Trump order defunding PBS, NPR (8 min read)
- Bloomberg | What US and EU Crackdowns on Big Tech Mean for Apple, Google, X (8 min read)
- Pew Research Center | Americans largely foresee AI having negative effects on news, journalists (3 min read)
- Bloomberg | Podcast Industry Is Twice as Large as Previously Estimated (1 min read)