Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• Stratechery | Manifestos and Monopolies (12 min read)
• theMediaBriefing | The fatal flaw in subscription models (7 min read)
• New York Times | In Trump Era, Censorship May Start in the Newsroom (6 min read)
• Digiday | How platforms get publishers to play the access game (3 min read)
• The Upshot | We Avoid News We Don’t Like. Some Trump-Era Evidence. (5 min read)
• Ad Age | Premium Publishers Tell P&G’s Pritchard They Can Solve His Digital Ad Problems (5 min read)
• Axios | Google follows FB into video audit territory (1 min read)
• The New York Times | What Facebook Owes to Journalism (6 min read)
• Time | Don’t Dismiss President Trump’s Attacks on the Media as Mere Stupidity (18 min read)
• NiemanLab | Newsonomics: Craig Newmark, journalism’s new Six Million Dollar Man (14 min read)
• MediaShift | Who Cares if Facebook is a Media Company? (4 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• Stratechery | Snap’s Apple Strategy (13 min read)
• Humane Tech | Tech and the Fake Market tactic (12 min read)
• Digiday | The Wall Street Journal to close Google loophole entirely (4 min read)
• News Corp | News Corp Chief Executive Says Digital Distributors Have “Eroded The Integrity Of Content” And Notes “Muddled Metrics” In Ad Market (3 min read)
• The Verge | Buzzfeed vs. Trump (15 min read)
• Wired | The New York Times Claws Its Way Into The Future (16 min read)
• CNN | Apple CEO Tim Cook calls for “massive campaign” against fake news (2 min read)
• The Washington Post | ‘Drop dead, media!’ Trump fans yelled — then bought the local papers (5 min read)
• The Telegraph | Journalists who obtain leaked official material could be sent to prison under new proposals (4 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Why Snap Is Worried About Net Neutrality (2 min read)
• Wired | John Oliver Returns to Out-News the News—by Ignoring Trump (7 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• The Washington Post | The traditional way of reporting on a president is dead.
  And Trump’s press secretary killed it. (5 min read)
• TheMediaBriefing | Key takeaways from the Europe’s Successful Paid Content Strategies report (5 min read)
• Monday Note | Facebook Journalism Project is Nothing But A Much-Needed PR stunt (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Fake News, Google and Facebook Stroll to the Starting Line (5 min read)
• Poynter| What does a news organization optimized for trust look like? (5 min read)
• Buzzfeed | People Read News On Facebook But They Don’t Really Trust It, A Survey Found (5 min read)
• Quartz | The World Economic Forum is treating fake news as an urgent matter of global human rights (5 min read)
• Digiday | Scaled back: Why publishers are rethinking their pursuit of huge numbers (4 min read)
• MIT Technogy Review | New FCC Chief Likes a Good Mega-Merger—Net Neutrality, Not So Much (3 min read)
• Financial Times | BuzzFeed and online media rivals seek new models (4 min read)
• Stratechery | The Great Unbundling (13 min read)

Our picks of the must-read stories from around the web:

• New York Times | Facebook, Nodding to Its Role in Media, Starts a Journalism Project (5 min read)
• Digiday | Why is third-party data still often wrong? (3 min read)
• Recode | Facebook is going to start showing ads in the middle of its videos and sharing the money with publishers (3 min read)
• FT | EU proposal on ad blockers welcomed by publishers (4 min read)
• AdExchanger | Full Disclosure: The FTC Has Its Eye On Cross-Device Tracking (4 min read)
• TechDirt | Ad Industry Wants New FCC Broadband Privacy Rules Gutted Because, Uh, Free Speech! (4 min read)
• Ars Technica | Facebook, Google face strict EU privacy rules that could hit ad revenues (3 min read)
• TheMediaBriefing | Where has all the ad spend gone? (4 min read)
• Fortune | How Google and Facebook Have Taken Over the Digital Ad Industry (5 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | Can Politicians and Singers Make Beautiful Music Together? (4 min read)
• The Guardian | Tim Wu: ‘The internet is like the classic story of the party that went sour’ (14 min read)

Our picks of the must-read stories from around the web:

• Financial Times | Adtech funding drops in face of Facebook-Google duopoly (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Advertising’s Moral Struggle: Is Online Reach Worth the Hurt? (7 min read)
• CJR | NPR One: ‘We are the enemies of filter bubbles’ (3 min read)
• Fortune | How Google and Facebook Have Taken Over the Digital Ad Industry (5 min read)
• Billboard | Facebook Developing Copyright ID System to Stem Music Rights Infringement (3 min read)
• Vox | A law professor’s warning: we are closer to oligopoly than at any point in 100 years (12 min read)
• Buzzfeed | 2016: The Year We Stopped Listening To Big Tech’s Favorite Excuse (11 min read)
• ProPublica | Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them (6 min read)
• AVC | What Is Going To Happen In 2017 (4 min read)
• The Daily Beast | Our Murrow Moment (10 min read)
• Digiday | The Counterpuncher: The Guardian’s new CRO Hamish Nicklin is on a mission (9 min read)

Our picks of the must-read stories from around the web:

• AdAge | Facebook Reveals New Advertiser Number Flaws (2 min)
• Politico | Donald Trump’s Real Threat to the Press (11 min)
• The New York Times | In Trump Era, Uncompromising TV News Should Be the Norm, Not the Exception (7 min)
• Digiday | Google still fuels fake-news websites through its complex web (3 min)
• The Wall Street Journal | Fake-News Sites Inadvertently Funded by Big Brands (4 min)
• The Guardian | 2016: the year Facebook became the bad guy (10 min)
• Re/code |  Net neutrality faces extinction under Trump (3 min)
• The New York Times | Forget AT&T. The Real Monopolies Are Google and Facebook. (4 min)
• The New Yorker | Gawker’s Demise and The Trump-Era Threat to The First Amendment (30 min)
• The Wall Street Journal | Ad Agencies Probed Over Contracts to Produce Commercials (4 min)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• The Wall Street Journal | Ad Agencies Probed Over Contracts to Produce Commercials (4 min read)
• The Guardian | Google, democracy and the truth about internet search (26 min read)
• The New York Times | How Much Disclosure About an Op-Ed Author Is Required? (4 min read)
• Monday Note | Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible With News (8 min read)
• AdAge | New EU Data Regulations Will ‘Rip Global Digital Ecosystem Apart (3 min read)
• Quartz | Facebook must stop pretending to be innocently neutral and start acting more like a media company (7 min read)
• MarketingTech | Is adblocking becoming the new norm? (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Ads Show Up on Breitbart and Brands Blame Technology (3 min read)
• Poynter | Panama Papers journalists around the globe are being threatened (9 min read)
• The New York Times | A Warning for Americans From a Member of Pussy Riot (7 min read)
• Digiday | Opinion: It’s time for brands to step up on fake news (3 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• Vanity Fair | Washington Post Editor Marty Baron Has A Message To Journalists In The Trump Era (9 min read)
• WSJ |Bloomberg CEO Justin Smith Talks Fake News Problem (2 min listen)
• Digiday | Confessions of a national newspaper exec: ‘Publishers haven’t got their shit together’ (4 min read)
• Mediatel | Europe’s new privacy rules are about shake adland to its core (5 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | Election Day mobile notifications offer peek into future of news delivery (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China (7 min read)
• Knowledge@Wharton | The End of Digital Advertising as We Know It (9 min read)
• Digiday | ‘The underbelly of the internet’: How content ad networks fund fake news (6 min read)
• The New York Times Magazine | Billionaires vs. the Press in the Era of Trump (16 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• Recode | Facebook says it miscalculated more metrics, but it’s telling advertisers not to worry (2 min read)
• PageFair | Europe’s new privacy regime will disrupt the adtech Lumascape (9 min read)
• MTV News | Facebook’s Fake-News Problem and The Rise of The Postmodern Right (9 min read)
• The Washington Post | Our First Amendment test is here. We can’t afford to flunk it. (5 min read)
• MediaPost | Google And Facebook: The Terminators (4 min read)
• theMediaBriefing | World War Media: Adblocking is a distraction (4 min read)
• MediaFile | EDITORIAL – Beyond Truth: 5 Lessons for Future Journalists during the Trump Administration (10 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers brace for what happens if Facebook stops paying for live videos (3 min read)
• theMediaBriefing | How the Financial Times grows subscriptions by focusing on its journalism (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Review: ‘The Attention Merchant Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs (5 min read)
• MuckHacker | He Who Controls Traffic Reigns King (8 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• Politico | How Trump Took Over the Media By Fighting It (16 min read)
• AdAge | Targeting on Publishers’ Websites May Be Due for a ‘Natural Correction’ (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal  |  Stop Ads That Follow You on Facebook, Google and the Web  (5 min read)
• Doc Searls | The Coming Curse of #SubSaturation: Too Many Subscriptions (2 min read)
• Press Think | Speaking truth to audience power (9 min read)
• Nieman Lab | After a slow start, Apple News is emerging as a significant traffic driver for some news orgs (5 min read)
• Recode | Google and Facebook are booming. Is the rest of the digital ad business sinking? (3 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek  | The NFL Was a Sure Thing for TV Networks. Until Now (15 min read)
• Marketingland  | SEE: How Twitter is stripping ads & engagement options off publisher content (4 min read)
• Buzzfeed  | How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News (7 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• Recode | Platforms like Facebook’s Instant Articles and Google AMP are making it harder, not easier, to publish to the web  (6 min read)
• Politico | Guardian cuts costs but numbers ‘don’t add up’ (8 min read)
• Washington Post | The FCC just passed sweeping new rules to protect your online privacy (5 min read)
• Monday Note | The reigning absurdity in the digital news economy (6 min read)
• Stratechery | Apple Should Buy Netflix (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads (9 min read)
• eMarketer | Digital Advertising Beyond the Impression (3 min read)
• Business Insider | Guardian CEO David Pemsel tells us how much damage Google and Facebook are doing to the news business (9 min read)
• eMarketer | One in Five iOS Devices in the US Are Limiting Ad Tracking (2 min read)
• CNN Money | The plague of fake news is getting worse — here’s how to protect yourself (4 min read)
• Nieman Lab| New York magazine turns a history of shopping recommendations into a new online revenue stream (4 min read)
• Digiday | Snapchat stops autoplay, marketers grapple with declining view counts (3 min read)