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

• The New York Times | Tackling the Internet’s Central Villain: The Advertising Business (9 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek | The iPad Lost Years for Apple’s Media Partners (4 min read)
• Wired | Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They’d Be (6 min read)
• The Intercept | The only place seemingly unconcerned with Big Tech’s concentrated power is the agency that might be able to do something about it (8 min read)
• The New York Times | An Ad Executive Often in the Vanguard Peers Into the Future (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook (4 min read)
• Axios | The local-national news divide on Google and Facebook (2 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Twitter Is Sending More Clicks To Publishers As Facebook Sends Less, New Data Show (2 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | Jonah Peretti: Everything is fine (8 min read)

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

• CBS News | People trust platforms less, trust journalism more, study says (2 min read)
• Adweek | Facebook Is in a Trust Crisis (6 min read)
• The Economist | Something doesn’t ad up about America’s advertising market (5 min read)
• AdAge | Rupert Murdoch Tells Facebook to Pay ‘Trusted’ Publishers (3 min read)
• Recode | Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google spent nearly $50 million — a record — to influence the U.S. government in 2017 (5 min read)
• The Verge | Facebook admits what we all know: that social media can be bad for democracy (3 min read)
• Recode | Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today (1 min read)
•  The New York Times | Once Cozy With Silicon Valley, Democrats Grow Wary of Tech Giants (6 min read)
• The New York Times | For Pope Francis, Fake News Goes Back to the Garden of Eden (5 min read)

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

• Wired | It’s the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech (14 min read)
• The New York Times | Flurry of Lawsuits Filed to Fight Repeal of Net Neutrality (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, Google and Amazon (4 min read)
• Financial Times | Half of Americans want to regulate news on social media (3 min read)
• AdExchanger | The High Cost Of Low CPMs (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | Mr. President, stop attacking the press (4 min read)
• Medium | Facebook is done with quality journalism. Deal with it. (7 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Facebook Couldn’t Handle News. Maybe It Never Wanted To. (9 min read)
• New Statesman | Margrethe Vestager: the EU commissioner who’s taming the Tech Giants (19 min read)

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

• AdAge | Rolling into 2018 like…2018 Resolutions We’d Like to See (4 min read)
• Daily Beast | Facebook and Google’s Dirty Secret: They’re Really Junk Mail Empires (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | EU Asks: Does Control of ‘Big Data’ Kill Competition? (4 min read)
• The Guardian | No tracking, no revenue: Apple’s privacy feature costs ad companies millions (3 min read)
• Doc Searls | The human solution to Facebook’s machine-produced problems also won’t work (6 min read)
• Recode | The leading lobbying group for Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech giants is joining the legal battle to restore net neutrality (2 min read)
• MediaShift | The Real Cost of the ‘Free’ Internet (6 min read)
• Recode | Facebook is testing a new section of the app specifically for local news and events (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | What the rise of the smart speaker might mean for podcasts (and on-demand audio in general) (10 min read)
• The Guardian | Tough new German law puts tech firms and free speech in spotlight (5 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | Americans Should Have More Control Over Their Data (4 min read)
• Digiday | News Corp’s Robert Thomson: ‘The digital world is dysfunctional’ (4 min read)
• The New York Times | A Note From Our New Publisher (5 min read)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation | Broadband Privacy: 2017 Year in Review (2 min read)
• CNN | Big tech’s role in the 2018 midterms (5 min view)
• MediaShift | The Media Industry’s #MeToo Moment (4 min read)
• Poynter | The biggest unknowns in media in 2018 (15 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Cross-examining the network: The year in digital and social media research (9 min read)

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

• Digiday | Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith: Publishers need to stop playing defense (5 min read)
• Neiman Lab | The only pivot that might work (2 min read)
• ArsTechnica | GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws (3 min read)
• Backchannel | The Other Tech Bubble (10 min read)
• Digiday | Facebook is changing licensing terms for Watch shows, creating a dilemma for publishers (5 min read)
• VentureBeat | Chrome will start blocking ads on February 15 (3 min read)
•  Bloomberg | Facebook Under Fire as German Antitrust Cops Target Ad Mode (5 min read)
• AdExchanger | Hearts & Science: Negative Brand Adjacency Has A Direct Impact On The Bottom Line (3 min read)

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

• The Atlantic | How to Survive the Media Apocalypse (7 min read)
• The Outline | The Death of the Internet (8 min read)
• The New York Times | The F.C.C. Wants to Let Telecoms Cash In on the Internet (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Google and Facebook Dominance Forecast to Rise (4 min read)
• Digiday | GDPR will lead to a scramble to pass off liability to others (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | Business is becoming a battle of the giants (4 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | News Corp CEO: “YouTube Is a Toxic Waste Dump” (1 min read)
• The Guardian | EU warns tech firms: remove extremist content faster or be regulated (2 min read)
• The Economist | Storytelling turns a page (4 min read)
• Ad Age | CBS Has a Much Different Picture of TV Advertising Than Agencies (1 min read)
• Stratechery | The Pollyannish Assumption (15 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Can 10,000 Humans Clean Up YouTube? (1 min read)

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

• Business Insider | Scott Galloway says Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google should be broken up (32 min video)
• The New York Times | The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death. (7 min read)

• The Atlantic | How to Survive the Media Apocalypse (4 min read)
• The Globe and Mail | Domain spoofing: The advertising industry fights back (4 min read)
•  Hollywood Reporter | Michael Wolff: Big Media’s Only Strategy? Scale for Scale’s Sake (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | NBCU Gathering of Ad, Media Elite Raises Questions About Industry’s Future (3 min read)
• Axios | How Snapchat is separating social from media (3 min read)
• Ad Exchanger | The TrustX Transparency Train Is Picking Up Speed. Next Stop: The Trade Desk (3 min read)
• Wired | How Bots Broke the FCC’s Public Comment System (8 min read)
• The Financial Times | Mixed signals from Washington blur the media picture (3 min read)
• Ars Technica | Comcast hints at plan for paid fast lanes after net neutrality repeal (6 min read)
• CNN | Stelter: Why Trump’s media attacks are still shocking (3 min read)

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

• The Guardian | Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: ‘The system is failing’ (4 min read)
• Forrester | Predictions 2018: Who Will Win And Who Will Lose Across The Media Landscape (3 min read)
• Business Insider | Huge media companies like CBS and ESPN are banding together to fight Google and Facebook — but it may not be enough (5 min read)
• The Guardian | Russian hackers targeted UK media and telecoms firms, confirms spy chief (2 min read)
• Motherboard | If Facebook Actually Wants to Be Transparent, It Should Talk to Journalists (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Hey, Mark Zuckerberg: My Democracy Isn’t Your Laboratory (5 min read)
• FIPP | How subscriptions became a driver of profit at The Economist (5 min read)
• Campaign | Pendulum is swinging back to quality content, Kint says (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | Newsonomics: The New York Times’ Mark Thompson on regulating Facebook, global ambition, and when to stop the presses (forever) (27 min read)
• Press Gazette | FT editor Lionel Barber calls on ‘deeply flawed’ social media networks to ‘drop the pretense’ they are not media companies (3 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | It’s Getting Harder for Tech Companies To Deny Responsibility for Content (5 min read)
• Business Insider | The head of sales as NBCUniversal just issued a stark warning to the ad industry (2 min read)
• Gizmodo | Once Again, Google Promoted Disinformation and Propaganda After a Mass Shooting (5 min read) 
• Medium | Something is wrong on the internet (25 min read)
• Axios | Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology (2 min read)
• The Globe and Mail| Facebook under fire: It’s time for the social media giant to grow up (3 min read) 
• Financial Times | Why we need to regulate the tech platforms (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | Trump’s message of mistrust is sinking in, even in journalism’s new ‘golden age’ (5 min read) 
• Digiday | Publishers are using advertiser trust concerns to their advantage (5 min read)
• The Intercept | How Twitter secretly benefits from bots and fake accounts (4 min read)
• Recode | The big media moguls are selling out. Who wants to replace them? (2 min read)

• Digiday | Advertisers often avoid hard news, but there’s mixed data to back this up (4 min read)

• The Guardian | We must not let big tech threaten our security, freedoms and democracy (13 min read)

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

• The Washington Post | Facebook, Google and Twitter testified on Capitol Hill. Here’s what they said. (8 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | It’s Time to Bust the Online Trusts (4 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek | How Snapchat Has Kept Itself Free of Fake News (13 min read)
• The Verge | How Americans really feel about Facebook, Apple, and more (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Big Tech’s Rivals Pounce at Chances to Win in Washington (7 min read)
• The Washington Post | The Russia ad story isn’t just about Facebook. It’s about Google, too. (4 min read)
• Press Gazette | Guardian says money from readers has overtaken advertising as it boasts 500,000 paying supporters  (2 min read)
• Digiday | The winners and losers of the EU’s new ePrivacy law (4 min read)
• Parse.ly | Not all bounces are created equal: Replacing bounce rate with engagement rate (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Mark Warner: Tech Millionaire Who Became Tech’s Critic in Congress (8 min read)
• The Guardian | Julian Assange confirms Cambridge Analytica sought WikiLeaks’ help (4 min read)