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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of December 4, 2025
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.
December 4, 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 Wrap | Media Goes on Offense as Trump Steps Up His War on Journalism (10 min read)
- Digiday | From lawsuits to lobbying: How publishers are fighting AI (6 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal |
- The Verge | Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense (3 min read)
- The Financial Times | Taming the four horsemen of the infocalypse (4 min read)
- The Associated Press | A lost generation of news consumers? Survey shows how teenagers dislike the news media (5 min read)
- The Washington Post | Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker (3 min read)
- Digiday | How AI’s hit to publisher traffic is quietly rewiring media M&A (8 min read)
- NBC News | Leading AI companies’ safety practices are falling short, new report says (2 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | The New, In-Demand Job Skill: Being a TikTok Influencer for Your Company (5 min read)