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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of August 21, 2025
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.
August 21, 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 New York Times | Come One, Come All! Buy Your TV Subscriptions Here! (6 min read)
- Digiday | Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows (7 min read)
- The Guardian | Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy (4 min read)
- The Wrap | Streaming Reaches Nearly Half of Total TV Viewing in July (2 min read)
- CJR | What Will the Next Era of Public Media Look Like? (8 min read)
- The New York Times | How Hulk Hogan Leg-Dropped the Digital Media Industry (7 min read)
- Wired | AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It’s Already Arrived (18 min read)
- Pew | How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age (7 min read)