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

• New York Post | News Corp CEO Robert Thomson warns AI could ‘fatally undermine’ journalism (3 min read)
• CJR | How the media is covering ChatGPT (10 min read)
• CNBC | Tech layoffs ravage the teams that fight online misinformation and hate speech (13 min read)
• Tookits | ‘A torrent of crap’: News publishers see trust as a differentiator as AI content proliferates (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | AI Leaders Are Calling for More Regulation of the Tech. Here’s What That May Mean in the US (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | Biden’s former tech adviser on what Washington is missing about AI (9 min read)
• Pluralistic | To save the news, ban surveillance ads (6 min read)
• Axios | Axios Finish Line: The future of media (3 min read)
• Baekdal | The impossible AI debate… (7 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of May 25, 2023

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

• Wired | Generative AI Podcasts Are Here. Prepare to Be Bored (9 min read)
• The Financial Times | The fall of Vice: private equity’s ill-fated bet on media’s future (14 min read)
• Vox | Do Americans really want “unbiased” news? (6 min read)
• Variety | The NFL Is Training Fans to Love Streaming (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | AI is an opportunity for creative industries, says Bertelsmann boss (3 min read)
• American Journalism Project | We asked 5,000 people across the country what they want from local news. Here’s what we learned. (12 min read)
• inews.uk | Twitter is making researchers delete data it gave them unless they pay $42,000 (4 min read)
• PressGazette | Canada news boss urges global peers to stick to their guns in battle with big tech (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of May 18, 2023

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

• The Verge | Speed Trap (32 min read)
• The Washington Post | Both parties trust the Weather Channel … and that’s about it (4 min read)
• The Verge | The AI takeover of Google Search starts now (12 min read)
• Press Gazette | What news publishers need to know about FAST channels after Washington Post launch (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | Massive Podcast Networks Put Their Shows on YouTube But Nobody is Listening (7 min read)
• Toolkits | Click-to-cancel requirements appear unavoidable (3 min read)
• Insider | Silicon Valley’s Hail Mary moment (11 min read)
• Molly White | Narrative over numbers: Andreessen Horowitz’s State of Crypto report (40 min read)
• Insider | RIP Metaverse (8 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of May 4, 2023

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

• Reuters | EU proposes new copyright rules for generative AI (2 min read)
• Bloomberg | AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms (5 min read)
• The Wrap | Hollywood Unions Join WGA at Huge Solidarity Rally on Strike’s Second Day (3 min read)
• The 19th | The voices of NPR: How four women of color see their roles as hosts (17 min read)
• The New York Times | Lina Khan: We Must Regulate A.I. Here’s How. (5 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | To Binge or Not to Binge? Netflix, HBO Max Debate How to Release Your Favorite Shows (7 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Promised to Defund Climate Lies, but the Ads Keep Coming (7 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | TikTok Is Launching Ad Product for Publishers and Giving Them 50% Cut (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | Micropayments. Elon Musk thinks he’s got a “major win-win” for news publishers with…micropayments. (10 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of April 27, 2023

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

• Press Gazette | News podcast listeners among most likely to tune in weekly, Ofcom survey (4 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Why child safety bills are popping up all over the US (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Americans Get Nostalgic for the Cable TV Experience (7 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘Unprepared’ Twitter among tech firms to face tough new EU digital rules (3 min read)
• WNIP | “Generative AI opportunities outweigh threats”: INMA report lists tools publishers can use now (3 min read)
• The Lenfest Institute | I canceled 22 digital newspaper subscriptions. Here’s what I learned about digital retention strategies. (11 min read)
• Reuters | Britain to take on Big Tech with new legal powers (2 min read)
• The Guardian | BuzzFeed News’ business model turned to dust because they were always at the whim of mercurial tech titans (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of April 20, 2023

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

• Press Gazette | The ethics of using generative AI to create journalism: What we know so far (9 min read)
• Axios | Streaming is recreating TV, rather than replacing it (2 min read)
• WNIP | What does broadcast-to-podcast tech mean for audio advertising? (3 min read)
• Medium | Your audience can tell when you’re out of touch (9 min read)
• Digiday | Despite DEI promises, media companies are still mostly hiring white people (4 min read)
• Variety | Americans Spend $48 per Month on Video Streaming Services — and Half of Those Surveyed Say That’s Too Much (3 min read)
• Axios | Americans mostly believe news they hear on podcasts (2 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it (6 min read)
• Financial Times | What happens when quants go ‘Mad Men’ (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of April 13, 2023

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

• Axios | Musk’s feud with the media takes a toll on Twitter (5 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers create task forces to oversee AI programs (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See? (11 min read)
• The Guardian | ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. Here’s how we’re responding (4 min read)
• Gizmodo | Inside Google’s Plan to Kill the Cookie (17 min read)
• Digiday | How newsletter publishers are expanding and diversifying beyond inbox-based revenue (5 min read)
• HBR | Research: How People Feel About Paying for Social Media (9 min read)
• The New York Times | NPR to Suspend Twitter Use After ‘Government-Funded’ Label (1 min read)
• MediaPost | Time Spent With Media Continues To Grow, Even As Ad-Supported Media’s Share Erodes (1 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of April 6, 2023

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

• Vanity Fair | “The Dumb Money Is Gone”: Is The Podcast Boom Going Bust? (8 min read)
• Digiday | As AI attention builds, so does the tension with how to handle it (5 min read)
• AdExchanger | The AMERICA Act May Finally Bring Much-Needed Common Sense Rules To Digital Advertising (5 min read)
• The Financial Times | We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI (5 min read)
• New York | Millennials Aren’t Killing ‘Objective’ News — the Market Is (17 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers’ Q1 ad revenue was better than forecasts, but not by much (5 min read)
• Pew Research Center | U.S. journalists’ beats vary widely by gender and other factors (3 min read)
• PressGazette | How automation is becoming ‘intelligent friend’ in UK local media newsrooms (4 min read)
• CNN | News organizations reject Elon Musk’s demand of paying to keep checkmarks on Twitter (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of March 30, 2023

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

• MIT Technology Review | An early guide to policymaking on generative AI (6 min read)
• The New York Times | How to Become an Expert on A.I. (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Ad Spending Still Expected to Grow in 2023 Despite ‘Stressful Economic Signals’ (2 min read)
• CNBC | The digital media rollup dream is dead for the moment — now it’s all about core brand strength (8 min read)
• The Verge | How to play the long game, with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien (47 min read)
• The New York Times | The Way You Watch Sports on TV Is Changing. Here’s Why. (9 min read)
• The Financial Times | Amazon and Google told to let UK radio stations stream on smart speakers (2 min read)
• WNIP | Platforms don’t owe publishers a living, but they do owe them compensation: Here’s why (7 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of March 23, 2023

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

• CNBC | What will TV look like in three years? These industry insiders share their predictions (24 min read)
• Reuters Institute | Race and leadership in the news media 2023: evidence from five markets (17 min read)
• Axios | Analysts predict streaming spend and new content slowdown in 2023 (4 min read)
• The New York Times | How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race (8 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Publishers Prepare for Showdown With Microsoft, Google Over AI Tools (6 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers tout generative AI opportunities to save and make money amid rough media market (6 min read)
• Variety | Frequent TV Series Cancellations Altering Viewer Behavior, Survey Shows (2 min read)
• The Nation | Just Because ChatBots Can’t Think Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Lie (8 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of March 16, 2023

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

• Digiday | Publishers move past seeing social media platforms as traffic drivers (6 min read)
• FT | Hollywood strikes back against streaming (10 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | The Way Americans Watch Local Sports Is About to Change (7 min read)
• The Verge | The future of TV is up in the air (10 min read)
• National Post | Fight between tech giants and Ottawa over paying for news could have global impacts (5 min read)
• The Conversation | Don’t trust the news media? That’s good (7 min read)
• Rest of World | Tech’s very bad year, in numbers (16 min read)
• Advanced Television | Research: Most essential SVoDs identified (2 min read)
• AdExchanger | This Is What Happened When I Tried Using AdChoices (Spoiler: It Didn’t Work) (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of March 9, 2023

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

• Financial Times | Amazon’s big dreams for Alexa fall short (6 min read)
• Tech Policy Press | Ten Legal and Business Risks of Chatbots and Generative AI (20 min read)
• Vanity Fair | When Is a Photo Not a Photo? The Looming Specter of Artificially Generated Photographs (11 min read)
• AdExchanger | Does The California Privacy Protection Agency Have Enough Resources To Fight Big Tech? (3 min read)
• American Press Institute | Funding news: How Gen Z and Millennials pay for or donate to news (8 min read)
• Benedict Evans | Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business (4 min read)
• Variety | Top Madison Avenue Media Buyers, Roku, Join Media Giants in Bid to Certify Measurement Methods (2 min read)
• Slate | Peak TV Is Over. Welcome to Trough TV. (10 min read)