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)

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

• Recode | Big Tech is so big it doesn’t need its founders anymore (5 min read)
• The Financial Times | Sports leagues should explore how to co-own rights with streaming services to reach wider audiences at a price more people are willing to pay (4 min read)
• Digiday | Why Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny (5 min read)
• AdExchanger | Facebook Is Testing A New In-App Screen On iOS 14 To Convince Users To Opt Into Tracking (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | Journalists are grappling with their relationships to big tech companies. It’s time for academics to do the same. (10 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Facebook to Test News Feed Controls for Advertisers (2 min read)
• The Atlantic | The Government Didn’t Foresee How Facebook Would Behave (5 min read)
• MediaPost | New CTV Ad Fraud: $30M To $50M In Theft (1 min read)
• The Drum | ‘Binary opt-ins no longer sustainable’: a look at GroupM and Unilever’s Data Ethics Compass (2 min read)

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

• The Financial Times | Big Tech’s reckoning over paying for news (3 min read)
• CNBC | SPAC boom could finally provide an exit ramp for digital publishers like Buzzfeed and Vice Media (8 min read)
• Axios | The podcast business is booming, but few are making money (3 min read)
• Variety | How Kids Television Became the Most Heated Front in the Streaming Wars (14 min read)
• Bloomberg | Hulu, Peacock to Share Streaming Rights to ‘Modern Family’ (2 min read)
• Local News Initiative | Medill Survey Finds News Media’s Money Worries Overwhelming, but Few See Ads as Best Answer (7 min read)
• Recode | Big Tech nemesis Lina Khan is gaining traction for top Biden antitrust role (4 min read)
• The New York Times | What We Learned From Apple’s New Privacy Labels (7 min read)
• Vox | Poll: Most Americans want to break up Big Tech (3 min read)
• TechCrunch | Facebook News launches in the UK, the first international market for its curated news portal (4 min read)

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

• The New York Times | How to Make Data Privacy Real (6 min read)
• Protocol | What TV remotes tell us about power struggles in streaming (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Netflix Will No Longer Borrow, Ending Its Run of Debt (4 min read)
• Los Angeles Times | How fast do you cancel streaming services? It’s a problem for Hollywood (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook (8 min read)
• Reuters | Google and French publishers sign agreement over copyright (2 min read)
• Sportico | The ‘Fourth Quarter’ Of Sports Media: Streaming Invites New Bidders For Events And League Rights (6 min read)
• Axios |Digital reading has exploded during the pandemic (1 min read)
• The Washington Post | Three steps to help treat America’s debilitating information disorder (4 min read)

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

• The Guardian | Google admits to running ‘experiments’ which remove some media sites from its search results (3 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Big Tech’s attention economy can be reformed. Here’s how. (11 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek | Spotify Bets Big on Podcasts as a Path to Profitability (16 min read)
• Bloomberg | Warner Bros. Guarantees Filmmakers a Payday for HBO Max Movies (6 min read)
• Pew Research | News Use Across Social Media Platforms in 2020 (3 min read)
• Reynolds Journalism Institute | Measuring progress on inclusivity (3 min read)
• Harvard Business Review | How to Hold Social Media Accountable for Undermining Democracy (7 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | Spending on Streaming Services and Software Could Reach $112 Billion in 2021 (1 min read)

• Deadline | Streaming Boom Reaches 2021 Crossroads: Can Big Media Really Catch Netflix? (12 min read)
• The Information | Why TV Advertising Won’t Recover What It Lost in 2020 (6 min read)
• Los Angeles Times | YouTube has gone from Hollywood pariah to partner. Meet the executive who led the change (9 min read)
• Adweek | Luxe Brands Expected to Spur an Audio Ad ‘Gold Rush’ in 2021 at The New York Times (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | From BuzzFeed to Axios, Digital Media Players Prepare for Deal Frenzy (5 min read)
• The Markup | In Georgia, Facebook’s Changes Brought Back a Partisan News Feed (9 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Roku Torments Entertainment Giants in Quest to Dominate Streaming (11 min read)
• Vulture | The 5 Stories That Shaped the Streaming Industry This Year (13 min read)
• The New Republic | Making Sense of the Facebook Menace (24 min read)

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

• Buzzfeed | In 2020, Disinformation Broke The US (18 min read)
• The Washington Post | Five myths about the news business (6 min read)
• The Lenfest Institute | Inside TAPinto’s franchise model for local news (15 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google, Facebook Win Key Concession in Law to Pay for News in Australia (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Who’s Behind the Fight Between Warner Bros. and Hollywood? It’s AT&T (8 min read)
• Pew Research Center | The American public shows mixed familiarity with new and evolving forms of news (19 min read)
• Nextgov | Why Data Privacy Is Crucial to Fighting Disinformation (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | Google is now blocking the ads publishers sell if they don’t meet Google’s standards (4 min read)