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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of July 31, 2025
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.
July 31, 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:
- Reuters | Trump, FCC want to reshape the media landscape starting with CBS (3 min read)
- NiemanLab | Generative AI models love to cite Reuters and Axios, study finds (3 min read)
- The Guardian | AI summaries cause ‘devastating’ drop in audiences, online news media told (3 min read)
- Bloomberg | How Podcast-Obsessed Tech Investors Made a New Media Industry (5 min read)
- The New York Times | Whatever Happened to the TikTok Ban? (5 min read)
- NBC News | AI models may be accidentally (and secretly) learning each other’s bad behaviors (4 min read)
- Variety | U.S. Streaming Video Market to Surge 33% by 2029 to Over $112 Billion, PwC Forecasts (5 min read)
- RSF | Six months of Trump’s war on the press: importing and exporting authoritarian tendencies (6 min read)