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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of September 3, 2026
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.
September 3, 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:
- Bloomberg | Google Avoids Ad Exchange Sale as Judge Orders Tech Integration (2 min read)
- PressGazette | Amazon and Meta AI bots account for most website visits (3 min read)
- Los Angeles Times | How Google is courting Hollywood to use its AI tools (5 min read)
- The New York Times | F.T.C. and 22 States Claim in Lawsuit That Amazon Secretly Inflated Ad Prices (3 min read)
- Reuters | EU antitrust regulators quiz publishers on Google’s AI search opt-out (1 min read)
- AP | For a century, journalists have had a voluntary ethics code. Editors are giving it an AI-era reboot (5 min read)
- Reuters | US government backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright case (2 min read)
- Columbia Journalism Review | Should the Press ‘Run Toward’ AI? (5 min read)
- NiemanLab | California legislature passes a major local news funding bill: “If you hire more people, you get more money” (2 min read)