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

• The Wall Street Journal |Apple, Spotify and the New Battle Over Who Wins Podcasting (6 min read)
• Wired | Why Lawmakers Are So Interested in Apple’s and Google’s ‘Rents’ (4 min read)
• Digiday| Publishers like The Guardian become conscientious FLoC objectors, as The New York Times and others open to testing the controversial tech (6 min read)
• CNBC | YouTube is a media juggernaut that could soon equal Netflix in revenue (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | EU to charge Apple with anti-competitive behaviour this week (2 min read)
• Axios | Congress drags algorithms out of the shadows (4 min read)
• CNBC | How local TV stations plan to remain relevant as viewers shift to streaming (9 min read)
• The Drum | The current state of US state data privacy laws (9 min read)

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

• The New York Times | In the Roaring Twenties, Ads Make a Comeback (6 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Researchers Uncover Advertising Scam Targeting Streaming-TV Apps (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Netflix’s Dominance Starts to Slow as Rivals Gain (5 min read)
• CBS News | Apple set to release long-awaited iOS update to restrict tracking by advertisers (4 min read)
• Variety |  Gen Z Ranks Watching TV, Movies as Fifth Among Top 5 Entertainment Activities (3 min read)
• The New York Times | The Supreme Court’s Increasingly Dim View of the News Media (5 min read)
• The Ringer | Live Sports Are the Next Great Battle of the Streaming Wars (12 min read)
• E&P | Wave of New Newspapers Sue Google and Facebook (3 min read)

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

• Wired | Antitrust and Privacy Are on a Collision Course (9 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How Amazon Strong-Arms Partners Using Its Power Across Multiple Businesses (13 min read)
• The New York Times | Why Buy a Yacht When You Can Buy a Newspaper? (9 min read)
• Adage | Tuning into Trends: CTV is an Engagement Cornerstone (3 min read)
• Brave | Why Brave Disables FLoC (8 min read)
• Digiday |  Why growth of women’s sports coverage and advertiser interest is bogged down by small steps forward (7 min read)
• The New York Times | Former Condé Nast Editor Plans a Vanity Fair for the Substack Era (3 min read)
• The Guardian | How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower’s account (23 min read)
• Variety | Survey: 39% of Americans Say Netflix Has Best Original Content of All Streaming Services (3 min read)
• Platformer | Announcing Sidechannel, a new community for Platformer subscribers (7 min read)

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

• The Atlantic | Scale Was the God That Failed (7 min read)
• Digiday | Publisher ad alliances get a new look as cookie changes loom (5 min read)
• Protocol | Justice Thomas argues for making Facebook, Twitter and Google utilities (3 min read)
• Recode | Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained (10 min read)
• Bloomberg | Streaming Services Have Finally Run Out of New Shows. Kind of. (8 min read)
• The Washington Post | The battle for Tribune: Inside the campaign to find new owners for a legendary group of newspapers (9 min read)
• TechCrunch | Apple shares more details about its imminent App Tracking Transparency feature (2 min read)
• Wired | What Really Caused Facebook’s 500M-User Data Leak? (10 min read)
• The Guardian | Why Silicon Valley’s most astute critics are all women (5 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | How Covid-19 Supercharged the Advertising ‘Triopoly’ of Google, Facebook and Amazon (10 min read)
• Wired | Google and the Age of Privacy Theater (10 min read)
• The New York Times | With Fewer Ads on Streaming, Brands Make More Movies (7 min read)
• NiemanLab | Most U.S. news organizations still won’t let most readers cancel their subscriptions online (3 min read)
• The New Yorker | HGTV Is Getting a Renovation (38 min read)
• PressThink | If you’re worried that journalists have learned nothing from the Trump years. (13 min read)
• CNBC | Kevin Mayer talks about his disappointing departures at Disney and TikTok, and the long decline of pay TV (23 min read)
• Yahoo! Finance | Netflix Tests If Weekly Dose Of Its Content Would Be Better Than Letting You Binge-Watch (2 min read)

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

• Local News Initiative | How Newsrooms Are Building Better Paywalls (7 min read)
• USA Today | Study: Lack of diversity in Hollywood costs industry $10B (2 min read)
• The Financial Times | Old media veterans defy critics to rally in streaming era (4 min read)
• The New York Times | U.K. Podcast Companies Want What the U.S. Has, Looking Past the BBC (7 min read)
• New Statesman | Why BuzzFeed and HuffPost’s decline wasn’t inevitable (5 min read)
• Politico | How Washington fumbled the future (18 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation (33 min read)
• The New York Times | Who Is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Aren’t Racist? (13 min read)

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

• NBC | Biden is loading up his administration with Big Tech’s most prominent critics (4 min read)
• The Information | Banished by Netflix, Advertising Makes Comeback on New Streaming Services (9 min read)
• CNN | Being owned by a billionaire is a struggling newsroom’s dream. But it can turn into a nightmare (12 min read)
• Bloomberg | Tech’s War With News Outlets Flares as U.S. Lawmakers Ready Bill (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Sports Are the Internet’s Secret Key (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Network mapping is a concrete method to include more voices in your reporting (5 min read)
• CJR | What the pandemic means for paywalls (5 min read)
• The Verge | The pirate assembling a better sports streaming service (5 min read)

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

• CNN | Top European media outlet refuses to join Facebook News (2 min read)
• Adweek | NBCU’s Linda Yaccarino on transformation, #ShesMy and gender equity (5 min read)
• Financial Review | How the news media code is a guide to the future of Big Tech (6 min read)
• AdAge| Disney CEO says moviegoing has probably changed forever (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google Rules Out U-Turn on Cookies Policy Attacked by Ad Firms (1 min read)
• CNN | How long should movies be in theaters before streaming? Hollywood is trying to find out (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Mixing public media and digital news startups can amplify the strengths of both — but not without risk (8 min read)
• The Financial Times |  EU must overhaul flagship data protection laws, says a ‘father’ of policy (2 min read)

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

• CNN | Australian law is hailed as ‘a big win for the news business’ with ramifications around the world (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Facebook’s Tussle With Australia Over News Is Just the Beginning (6 min read)
• CNN | ‘Thank God for The Texas Tribune’: Power crisis shines light on local news (6 min read)
• The Atlantic | The Government Needs to Find Big Tech a New Business Model (8 min read)
• Reuters | Exclusive: French antitrust investigators say Google breached its orders on talks with news publishers – sources (2 min read)
• AP | Microsoft, EU publishers seek Australia-style news payments (2 min read)
• Digiday | How The New York Times and CafeMedia have taken divergent approaches to complying with California’s privacy law (6 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | What we can learn from the Facebook-Australia news debacle (6 min read)
• Axios | Pandemic drives nonprofit media boom (2 min read)
• Reuters Institute | News site Stuff left Facebook. Seven months later, traffic is just fine and trust is higher (5 min read)
• The Verge | California can finally enforce its landmark net neutrality law, judge rules (1 min read)

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

• CNN | Facebook bans news in Australia as fight with government escalates (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Is Suddenly Paying for News in Australia. What About Everywhere Else? (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | ViacomCBS Goes ‘All-In’ on Streaming, But Without Many of Its Top Shows (8 min read)
• Knight-Cronkite News Lab | Thinking beyond the buzzword What does ‘engaged’ journalism mean for you, your audience…and your bottom line? (8 min read)
• Reuters| News Corp signs news partnership deal with Google (3 min read)
• Reuters | Google’s $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Big Tech’s Next Big Problem Could Come From People Like ‘Mr. Sweepy’ (6 min read)
• Axios | Entertainment giants focus on free streaming (1 min read)
• The Verge | Can Anyone Moderate Podcasts? (9 min read)
• Recode Media | New York Times CEO Meredith Levien on the future of news, and her newspaper (42 min listen

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

• CNBC | Now that Trump’s gone, media companies will have to figure out how news fits into streaming future (8 min read)
• Axios | Publishers see new life in the old open web (3 min read)
• Digiday | Smart TVs have become the new front in the connected TV platform battle (5 min read)
• American Press Institute | How a small-town paper is applying conflict mediation skills to its opinion content (10 min read)
• CNBC | Australia’s media bill could become law ‘fairly soon’ despite Google and Facebook objections, minister says (4 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers look to allay employee fears over a return to the office by offering additional flexibility (5 min read)
• Poynter | Can better corrections improve news readers’ trust? (5 min read)