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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of May 22, 2025
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies
May 22, 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:
- Bloomberg | Google Decided Against Offering Publishers Options in AI Search (6 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | What Is Big Tech Trying to Hide? (6 min read)
- The Verge | AI Mode is obviously the future of Google Search (7 min read)
- Digiday | One year in: SEO lessons from publishers after Google’s AI Overviews (7 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | Streamers Are Finally Making Money. For Consumers, It’s Getting Messier. (5 min read)
- The New York Times | Google Unveils A.I. Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search (8 min read)
- The Drum | News Horizons: how global media is quietly reinventing itself (7 min read)
- CJR | Report: How Platforms and Publishers are Navigating AI (2.5h read)