/ An inside look at the business of digital content
DCN’s media industry must reads: week of October 9, 2025
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.
October 9, 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 | U.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly (4 min read)
- Pew Research Center | Relatively few Americans are getting news from AI chatbots like ChatGPT (2 min read)
- Digiday | From walls to frameworks: Publishers and tech giants push weekly talks on AI content use (7 min read)
- The Financial Times | Have we passed peak social media? (4 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | Corporate Anxiety Is Fueling a Multimillion-Dollar Industry of Gen Z Translators (5 min read)
- CJR | Reddit Is Winning the AI Game (5 min read)
- CNN | Pentagon charges ahead with press restrictions ‘designed to stifle a free press,’ media orgs say (4 min read)
- NiemanLab | Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different (5 min read)