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

• Financial Times | Amazon’s MGM deal doesn’t need to revolutionise streaming to pay off (5 min read)
• Wired | Twitch Turns 10, and the Creator Economy Is in Its Debt (7 min read)
• The New York Times | Google to Pay $270 Million to Settle Antitrust Charges in France (4 min read)
• Axios | The Chernin Group raising $1 billion for new investments (4 min read)
• NBC | Ohio sues Google, claims tech giant should be regulated as public utility (2 min read)
• Digiday | Subscription-based streamers outstrip ad-supported services’ share of watch time (3 min read)
• Financial Times | Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent learn Netflix lessons in content fight (6 min read)
• CNBC| Apple is encroaching on Facebook’s territory like never before with new social features (3 min read)

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

• The New York Times | D.C. Accuses Amazon of Controlling Online Prices (6 min read)
• CNBC | Amazon’s ad revenue is now twice as big as Snap, Twitter, Roku and Pinterest combined (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Big Tech Adversary Poised to Take Assertive FTC Antitrust Role (8 min read)
• Vox | Why Amazon is paying nearly $9 billion for MGM and James Bond (5 min read)
• NPR | Europe Wants Social Media Giants To Do More To Stop Disinformation (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Americans Actually Want Privacy. Shocking. (5 min read)
• AdAge | 7 Post-Pandemic Lessons For The TV Industry (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | Brussels to open formal antitrust probe into Facebook (2 min read)

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

• The Financial Times |  How WarnerMedia and Discovery plan to forge a media behemoth (7 min read)
• Stratechery | Distribution and Demand (11 min read)
• Axios | Big media to get a lot bigger (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | The U.S. Media Index database shows news consumers who owns what (1 min read)
• Wired | How Apple screwed Facebook (6 min read)
• The Atlantic | Can the News Be Fixed? (15 min read)
• The Washington Post | The Washington Post will soon have a woman as its top editor. And yes, that matters. (4 min read)
• New York | Tech vs. Journalism Inside the nasty battle between Silicon Valley and the reporters who write about it. (27 min read)

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

• Protocol | In Biden’s broadband plan, cable is in for the fight of its life (11 min read)
• The New York Times | Why Is New TV So Much Like Cable? (4 min read)
• The Drum | The CTV ad measurement conundrum that creates more questions than answers (10 min read)
• Nieman Lab | It turns out no one wants to be tracked all across their iPhones by Facebook (or anyone else) (3 min read)
• Axios | Tech giants have all become creator companies (1 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek | Streaming TV Commercials Are Bewildering, Repetitive, and Growing Like Crazy (7 min read)
• Vox | National Geographic faced up to its racist past. Did it actually get better? (27 min read)
• Study Hall | The COVID Reporters Are Not Okay. Extremely Not Okay. (24 min read)

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

• Vox | How subscriptions took over our lives (10 min read)
• The Drum | Can niche streaming services co-exist with the giants of OTT? (6 min read)
• CNBC | Tech giants’ earnings showed their absolute dominance (4 min read)
• Iris Chyi |The Impact of Covid-19 on 20 U.S. Newspapers’ Print and Digital Circulation (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | Why your favorite new NPR show might sound a lot like a podcast  (7 min read)
• Wired | The One Legal Question That Will Probably Decide the Epic-Apple Lawsuit (7 min read)
• The Guardian | Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board (4 min read)
• CNBC | Amazon’s ads business is generating nearly $7 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating (2 min read)
• ICJF | How Disinformation and Hate Fuel Online Attacks Against Women Journalists (5 min read)

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)