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

• Digiday | In graphic detail: What trends we can see from publishers 2021 earnings report (5 min read)
• The New York Times | The Old-Timers Are Chasing Netflix (5 min read)
• The Guardian | Will the news boom prevent more media outlets going bust? (5 min read)
• Stratechery | Why Netflix Should Sell Ads (11 min read)
• The New York Times | Helping Hollywood Avoid Claims of Bias Is Now a Growing Business (7 min read)
• Techcrunch | Apple pilot tests feature that allows developers to automatically charge users for subscription price increases (5 min read)
• Axios | Google adds “highly cited” label to search results (1 min read)
• Variety | Video Glut: More Than 817,000 Titles Now Available on U.S. Streaming and TV Services, up 26% in Just Over Two Years, Nielsen Says (2 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of March 31, 2022

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Streaming Audio Climbs the Charts With Marketers, but Some Want More Certainty (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Apple and the Streaming Mirage (6 min read)
• CNBC | How Google and Amazon bankrolled a ‘grassroots’ activist group of small business owners to lobby against Big Tech oversight (11 min read)
• Poynter | Journalism should take a cue from entertainment — diversity grows audiences (5 min read)
• Digiday | ‘An explosion in the channel’: Why marketers are giving digital video a bigger piece of the advertising pie (3 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | Netflix’s Game Studio Buying Spree Lays Groundwork for Next Streaming Battle (3 min read)
• Digiday | How media companies are trying to make their newsrooms as diverse as the markets they serve (7 min read)
• Variety | Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple to Be Regulated as Europe Agrees to Landmark Digital Markets Act (3 min read)
• Center for Cooperative Media | Cross-field collaboration: How and why journalists and civil society organizations around the world are working together (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of March 24, 2022

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

• The Atlantic | How Western News Is Getting Around Putin’s Digital Iron Curtain (7 min read)
• Digiday | How publishers are working to make their Russia-Ukraine coverage available to readers in those countries (5 min read)
• The Financial Times | How Big Tech lost the antitrust battle with Europe (13 min read)
• The Verge | How SiriusXM bought and bungled a beloved podcast network (17 min read)
• Digiday | In ad tech, everyone wants less to mean more now (7 min read)
• NiemanLab | “Beyond political correctness”: The exclusionary messaging of gendered language in journalism (8 min read)
• The New York Times | What the Silicon Valley Prophet Sees on the Horizon (8 min read)
• Reuters Institute | Race and leadership in the news media 2022: evidence from five markets (14 min read)

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

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

• The New York Times | First Amendment Scholars Want to See the Media Lose These Cases (9 min read)
• Variety | Global Entertainment Industry Revenue Rebounds From Pandemic, Thanks to Streaming Boom (4 min read)
• The New York Times | How California Is Building the Nation’s First Privacy Police (7 min read)
• Axios | Streaming boom propels film industry’s pandemic recovery (1 min read)
• The 19th | Can making employers share pay in job postings help fix the gender pay gap? (10 min read)
• Digiday | Dysfunctional dynamics continue to blight ad tech’s prospects (6 min read)
• TechCrunch | ‘Jedi Blue’ ad deal between Google and Facebook sparks new antitrust probes in EU and UK (8 min read)
• MediaPost | Big Agencies In Discussion To Rate Credibility Of Ad-Supported Podcasts (4 min read)

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

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

• The Washington Post | News outlets scramble to set up technical workarounds in response to Russian censorship (5 min read)
• Axios | News media flee Russia to avoid Putin’s fake news law (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Surrounded by Big Tech, Small Podcast Shops Swim With Sharks (8 min read)
• Source | Sincerely, Leaders of Color: There is no pipeline problem (7 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | The Booming Business of Kids’ Podcasting: “It Has Absolutely Exploded” (4 min read)
• CJR | Australia pressured Google and Facebook to pay for journalism. Is America next?
• The Guardian | Chinese government adviser calls for law to ban ‘fake news’ (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of March 3, 2022

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

• Wired | Australia’s Standoff Against Google and Facebook Worked—Sort Of (10 min read)
• The New York Times | The Hidden Image Descriptions Making the Internet Accessible (12 min read)
• Press Gazette | How Canada’s Online News Act will differ from Australia’s news media bargaining code (6 min read)
• Axios | Walls closing in on Russia’s propaganda machine (2 min read)
• The New York Times | President Biden will call for more limits on social media. (2 min read)
• The Guardian | TechScape: How the internet became a key front in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | All the Ways Google Is Coming Under Fire Over Privacy: QuickTake (5 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of February 24, 2022

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Inside Facebook’s $10 Billion Breakup With Advertisers (10 min read)
• Report for America | Report for America spotlights important new trend – creation of ‘Community News Funds’ (3 min read)
• Axios | Digital giants eye magazines to spur growth (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Why Podcasts Are Becoming Netflix (4 min read)
• Digiday | Why news publishers are using non-news content to hook readers and turn them into subscribers (5 min read)
• The Guardian | TechScape: how Spotify may have just quietly changed podcasts forever (8 min read)
• The New York Times | Why Apple’s Fight in the Netherlands Matters (4 min read)
• Reuters | Two U.S. Big Tech antitrust bills backed by publisher trade group (2 min read)

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

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

• Press Gazette | Why publishers are starting to ditch Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (10 min read)
• Adweek | Long Before Lawsuits, Publishers Have Puzzled at Google’s Ad Auction Irregularities (5 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Not just Black history. American history’: How publishers are using Black History Month to cover the past that isn’t being taught in schools (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Sarah Palin’s Libel Claim Against The Times Is Rejected by a Jury (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | California to adopt UK-style child data law in global push against Big Tech (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Plans Privacy Changes, but Promises to Not Be Disruptive (3 min read)
• Pew Research Center | Nearly a quarter of Americans get news from podcasts (2 min read)
• Poynter | Sarah Palin suffers a one-two punch in her battle against The New York Times, and that’s good for journalism (3 min read)

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

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

• The Financial Times | US streaming giants feel squeeze of regulation in Europe (7 min read)
• Axios | Amazon finally reveals the size of its massive ad business (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Local Papers Find Hints of Success With Online Subscriptions (7 min read)
• Journalism.co.uk | What does Google’s new ‘page experience’ metric mean for publishers? (4 min read)
• Digiday | The Rundown: Google, Meta and Amazon are on track to absorb more than 50% of all ad money in 2022 (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Spotify’s Joe Rogan Problem Isn’t Going Away (9 min read)
• Stratechery | Digital Advertising in 2022 (20 min read)
• The Cut | Because Your Algorithm Says So Examining our (sometimes toxic) relationship with our AI overlords. (12 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of January 27, 2022

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

• Politico | Is the Media Doomed? (27 min read)
• Bloomberg | Venture Investors’ $1.4 Billion Bet on News Faces a Reality Check (2 min read)
• AdExchanger | Even If Targeted Online Advertising Isn’t Banned – Take Note Of Which Way The Wind Is Blowing (5 min read)
• Ars Technica | Google drops FLoC after widespread opposition, pivots to “Topics API” plan (4 min read)
• Axios | Wall Street braces for new streaming reality (3 min read)
• Medium | We’ve spent two years studying readers’ & listeners’ needs of The Atlantic (12 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | Saving journalism: worldwide interventions (10 min read)
• AdExchanger | The Industry Is Still On Tenterhooks About A Universal Opt-Out Signal Under CPRA (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of January 20, 2022

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

• NiemanLab | Can U.S. journalism truly serve global audiences? Not if it treats them like an afterthought (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | Netflix Needs New Subscribers. Its Korean Playbook Is Its Secret Weapon. (8 min read)
• Axios | TV networks overhaul measurement system amid streaming surge (3 min read)
• The Verge | US competition enforcers launch overhaul of merger approval process (2 min read)
• NiemanReports | Newsrooms Are Unionizing Pretty Much “Nonstop.” Here’s Why (14 min read)
• Poynter | Internationally too, journalists and others are debating government subsidies and how to deal with Big Tech
• PressGazette | Almost seven in ten people worry they are being lied to by journalists according to latest Edelman trust survey (3 min read)
• Politico | Journalism Is Broken and I Alone Can Fix It! (6 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of January 13, 2022

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

• Bloomberg | Podcasting Hasn’t Produced A New Hit in Years (9 min read)
• The New York Times | Cable TV Is the New Landline (5 min read)
• Deadline | With Tentpoles Bound To Surge The 2022 Box Office, The Great Theatrical-Streaming Day & Date Experiment Goes Out Like A Dud In 2021 (15 min read)
• The Financial Times | Streaming wars drive media groups to spend more than $100bn on new content (3 min rad)
• Harvard Kennedy School | Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information? (15 min read)
• The New York Times | A Facebook antitrust suit can move forward, a judge says, in a win for the F.T.C. (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | “Traffic whoring” or simply optimizing? Finding the boundaries between clean and dirty metrics (10 min read)
• Digiday |  How publishers experimented with NFTs in 2021 (5 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of December 16, 2021