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

• Variety | In Hollywood Contract Talks, the Push for Viewership Data May Become a Flash Point (3 min read)
• FT | Meta’s AI-driven advertising system splits marketers (6 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | YouTube’s Podcast Play Comes Into Focus Amid Skepticism From Creators (4 min read)
• Digiday | Quarterly ad spending recap: Green shoots of ad spending growth will take time to bloom (4 min read)
• WNIP | Publishers: The business case for diversity and inclusion (7 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Pivot to … Something? The Blurry Future of Podcasting (6 min read)
• NBCU | How Journalists Can Responsibly Report on Trans Kids (10 min read)
• Digiday | Marketers seek adaptability amid a fragmented post-cookie landscape (5 min read)

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

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

• Toolkits | Publishers grapple with increasingly complex subscription renewal laws (4 min read)
• Digiday | ChatGPT’s arrival accelerates lifestyle publishers’ move away from SEO-driven content (5 min read)
• Morning Consult | TikTok Really Is Becoming Gen Z’s Google, and More on How Gen Z Gets Its News (8 min read)
• NBC News | Tech giants from Google to TikTok face tougher E.U. rules (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Supreme Court Seems Wary of Limiting Protections for Social Media Platforms (9 min read)
• Digiday | How will ChatGPT change freelancing? 5 publishers weigh in (4 min read)
• Mediapost | White House Tackles ‘Algorithmic Discrimination’(2 min read)
• PressGazette | Americans’ trust in news continues to decline, says new survey (5 min read)
• The Guardian | The secret world of disinformation for hire (43 min listen)

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

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

• Poynter | This newspaper doesn’t exist: How ChatGPT can launch fake news sites in minutes (7 min read)
• The New York Times | The People Onscreen Are Fake. The Disinformation Is Real. (7 min read)
• Digiday | Google-Meta duopoly continues to creak in their ‘heightened maturity’ as Amazon, Apple ascend (5 min read)
• Journalism.co.uk | WSJ, Economist and FT all now have women editors – what does it mean for business? (4 min read)
• CNBC | What will TV look like in three years? These industry insiders share their predictions (25 min read)
• Fast Company | Atmosphere TV has billion-dollar ambitions to entertain—and market to you—while you wait (7 min read)
• NiemanLab | Google now wants to answer your questions without links and with AI. Where does that leave publishers? (12 min read)
• Variety | Most Pirated Film, TV Titles See Uneven Impact From Streaming (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of February 2, 2023

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

• Financial Times | A legal victory over Google could yet dent Big Tech’s armour (5 min read)
• The Guardian | Social media companies in the US brace to battle onslaught of legal challenges (6 min read)
• Financial Times | Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Privacy has been extinguished. It is now a zombie’ (8 min read)
• PressGazette | How Google has downgraded importance of news websites in search results (1 min read)
• Bloomberg | Apple’s Soccer TV Push Comes With No Guarantees for Advertisers (3 min read)
• Digiday | The programmatic open marketplace is faltering, but publishers see a bright spot in private programmatic deals (5 min read)
• Adweek | How Ad-Blocking, Once a Preference, Found a Tailwind in Privacy (4 min read)
• Variety | Australia to Introduce Streaming Quotas by Mid-2024 (5 min read)

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

• Semafor | The Billionaire Era in News is Fizzling (6 min read)
• Axios | Media layoffs loom large over 2023 (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | Twitter will soon let news outlets lay visual claim to their staffers’ accounts. Should they?  (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Supreme Court Puts Off Considering State Laws Curbing Internet Platforms (7 min read)
• MediaPost | Magna Trial Finds Consumers Hold Brands Responsible When Ads Don’t Align With Content (3 min read)
• PressGazette | MPs call for public interest local news fund and accuse major publishers of ‘compromising quality’ (7 min read)
• Horowitz | As Netflix and Others Crack Down on Password Sharing, New Horowitz Study Provides a Hint at How Consumers Will React (3 min read)
• Variety | DOJ and Eight States Sue Google, Alleging It Holds a ‘Monopolistic Grip’ on Digital Ad Market (4 min read)
• Financial Times | Can Big Tech make livestreams safe? (7 min read)

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

• Morning Consult | Podcasters First Wanted Your Ears. Now They Want Your Eyes Too (10 min read)
• The Verge | Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content  (5 min read)
• PressGazette | Trust in media up in the UK but remains among lowest in the world, Edelman survey finds (4 min read)
• Futurism | CNET’s Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors (9 min read)
• Financial Times | How Royal Mail’s hacker became the world’s most prolific ransomware group (5 min read)
• Reuters Institute | Blind news audiences are being left behind in the data visualisation revolution: here’s how we fix that (7 min read)
• Politico | DOJ antitrust chief cleared to oversee Google probes (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Maria Ressa, Philippine Journalist and Nobel Laureate, Is Acquitted of Tax Evasion (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of January 12, 2023

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

• Wall Street Journal | Republicans and Democrats, Unite Against Big Tech Abuses (4 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Entertainment Giants Teaming Up on Advertising Currency Initiative, Announce Plan to Unify Streaming Viewership Data (4 min read)
• Financial Times | US regulatory action on the tech sector may come too late — or not at all (4 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | China, a Pioneer in Regulating Algorithms, Turns Its Focus to Deepfakes (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Streaming Changed TV. Is TV Changing Streaming Back? (8 min read)
• Poynter | Amid soaring inflation and mass layoffs, news leaders head into 2023 with diminished confidence (4 min read)
• Digiday | Meta’s been blasted by the EU privacy watchdog for breaching GDPR — now what? (4 min read)
• Medium | Just How Social Do We Want Our Media, Really? (8 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of January 5, 2023

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

• The Financial Times | Hollywood executives brace for ‘year of turmoil’ in 2023 (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Meta’s Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under E.U. Law (5 min read)
• Digiday | Media businesses are slowly getting less white, male-dominated, stats from Condé, WSJ, NYT, others show (5 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Latest Diversity Reports From USC, SDSU Reveal Room for Improvement Behind the Camera (3 min read)
• Wired | Keep It Real or Lose Gen Z (3 min read)
• Digiday | Marketers are left head scratching over 2023 after the pure chaos that was digital advertising last year (5 min read)
• Axios | TV’s tough trajectory (3 min read)
• Digiday | WSJ, Insider, BDG among publishers revisiting pandemic lessons in business ops as potential recession looms (8 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | The TV Ratings Road Map: Where, When and How Viewers Watch in the Streaming Era (13 min read)
• WNIP | Publishers, you should start using Mastodon: 10 reasons why (8 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of December 15, 2022

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

• The Guardian | Is this the end of TV? Broadcasters prepare for online-only switch (5 min read)
• Times | Can News Be Made Into a Sustainable Business? (10 min read)
• NiemanLab | “We Need a Language That Has Been Developed, Defined, and Codified by People Who Look Like Us” (7 min read)
• Reuters | Google Ad Manager outage costs big websites ad sales (2 min read)
• MediaPost | Nearly Half Of Streaming Subscribers Regularly Jump Among Services (1 min read)
• AdExchanger | Meet Performance Max, The Blackest Black Box Of All Google Ad Products (10 min read)
• TheDrum | Black, Asian and Hispanic representation in ads declined in 2022 (2 min read)
• MediaPost | Media Now Represent A Fifth Of Americans’ Most Indispensable Brands (1 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of December 8, 2022

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

• INMA | Listeners’ sonic attention is worth fighting for (1 min read)
• Axios | Ad growth expected to slow further in 2023 (3 min read)
• The Verge | Disney’s CEO drama explained, with Julia Alexander (1 hour read)
• The New York Times | Why Losing to Meta in Court May Still Be a Win for Regulators (7 min read)
• Axios | The alternative-media industrial complex (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | Two years after launching a local news company (in an Alden market), here’s what I’ve learned (14 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | Meta’s Targeted Ad Model Faces Restrictions in Europe (6 min read)
• PressGazette | Survey suggests people don’t trust news industry because they don’t understand it (5 min read)

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

• Lion Publishers | What our independent news experts learned from auditing 75 news businesses (6 min read)
• Poynter | Contrary to concerns, news organizations are still seeing a rise in subscriptions (5 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘Culture of exclusion’ keeps women of colour from top media jobs, report reveals (4 min read)
• Techcrunch | Adtech antitrust class damages claim filed against Google in UK — seeking up to $16.3BN (4 min read)
• ArsTechica | Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | Post, the latest Twitter alternative, is betting big on micropayments for news (10 min rad)
• Reuters Institute | Changing Newsrooms 2022: media leaders embrace hybrid work despite challenges (40 min read)
• BBC | Meta fined €265m by Irish data watchdog over breach (1 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of November 17, 2022

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

• The New York Times | Google Agrees to $392 Million Privacy Settlement With 40 States (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Media Companies Are Having Their Worst Year in Three Decades (8 min read)
• PressGazette| US magazine circulations: America’s biggest titles saw circulation fall 8% year-on-year but digital growth continues (5 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘You have to fight for democracy’: Maria Ressa and her lawyer Amal Clooney on their quest for justice (8 min read)
• Journalism.co.uk | What publishers can learn from gaming (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Meta’s layoffs make it official: Facebook is ready to part ways with the news (7 min read)
• CJR | How can newsrooms improve when it comes to their social media policies? Diversify their leadership. (8 min read)
• Financial Times | UK regulator may force social media sites to reveal algorithms (5 min read)
• PressGazette | Why Canada must make rules around Duopoly publisher payments transparent (5 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of November 10, 2022