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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of February 12, 2026
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.
February 12, 2026 | 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 |Hollywood Braces for New Round of Labor Talks (4 min read)
- Digiday | In Graphic Detail: The scale of the challenge facing publishers, politicians eager to damage Google’s adland dominance (3 min read)
- The Financial Times | Apple faces new tensions with Trump administration (3 min read)
- Reuters | Google hit by European publishers’ complaint to EU over AI Overviews (2 min read)
- Poynter | How to build a newsroom plan for responding to First Amendment threats (3 min read)
- Pew Research Center | Americans’ Complicated Relationship With News (10 min read)
- CJR | Disarming the Global Free Press (6 min read)
- The Guardian | Arrested journalist Don Lemon urges US to ‘keep fighting’ for right to free press (3 min read)