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

• CJR | “Everything clicks for a different reason”: Why journalism analytics are so hard to interpret (23 min read)
• MediaPost | Advertisers Expand Meaning Of ‘Brand Safety,’ Hold Media Accountable For Overall Harm (2 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | Apple, Google Hold ‘Vise-Like Grip’ on Smartphones, U.K. Regulator Says (3 min read)
• Lion Publishers | What does it mean to be a “sustainable” news business? (11 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | How ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The New Yorker’ Have Made the Doc Shorts Race More Competitive (5 min read)
• Knight First Amendment Institute | A Standard for Universal Digital Ad Transparency (1 hour read)
• Financial Times | Disney’s chief on his war with Netflix, irking the talent and breaking with the past (27 min read)
• Ad Law Access | What Rulemaking is the FTC planning for 2022? Now We Know (5 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of December 9, 2021

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

• The Financial Times | Apple reaches quiet truce over iPhone privacy changes (4 min read)
• The Verge | As Tech Founders Resign, Congress Loses Its Favorite Targets (6 min read)
• Press Gazette | Canada’s news industry expects up to $150m annual windfall from Australia-style big tech crackdown (14 min read)
• Digiday | Ad-supported streaming services assess how many ads to show viewers (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Netflix and the Internet of Fads (5 min read)
• Digiday | How publishers are handling returns to the office going into 2022 (6 min read)
• The New York Times | BuzzFeed’s stock falls in its public debut, offering a warning to other digital media firms. (6 min read)
• Axios | Full list: The local newspaper publishers targeting Google and Facebook (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Advertising Market Keeps Growing Much Faster Than Expected, Forecasters Say (2 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of December 2, 2021

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

• Axios | Media startups anxiously await BuzzFeed’s stock market debut (2 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Exclusive is illusive’: U.K. publishers launch plan to mitigate loss of traffic when sources aren’t properly cited (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Local News Outlets Could Reap $1.7 Billion in Build Back Better Aid (7 min read)
• The Verge | A dating app — not Facebook or Clubhouse — cracked getting audio to go viral (13 min read)
• Axios | America’s attention recession (2 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation (25 min read)
• The Financial Times | Online streaming looks to Asia for steady flow of subscribers (5 min read)
• Reuters | EU plans media act, industry chief Breton says, amid curbs on freedom (1 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Move Over, GE. The Tech Conglomerates Are the New Leaders of Industry. (8 min read)

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

• NiemanLab | The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC says (3 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | How Broadcast Stacks Up With Streaming in Total Minutes Viewed (3 min read)
• Axios | The Substack scaries are over for media companies (4 min read)
• Vanity Fair | A Good Newsletter Exit Strategy Is Hard to Find (7 min read)
• Journalism.co.uk | How has the pandemic changed media recruitment? (4 min read)
• Variety | China Eyes 100,000 Movie Screens and Closer Ties to Cannes: Six Takeaways From Country’s Five-Year Film Plan (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Why Suits Against Netflix Could Shake Streaming (7 min read)
• Northwestern University | Medill’s New Index Puts Spotlight on Rescuing At-Risk Subscribers (13 min read)
• NiemanLab | About a third of news organizations have already adopted a remote or hybrid working model (6 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of November 11, 2021

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

• The Hollywood Reporter | Why Suits Against Netflix Could Shake Streaming (7 min read)
• Wired | Ignore China’s New Data Privacy Law at Your Peril (6 min read)
• Politico | Vestager’s court win opens way for more Google cases (4 min read)
• Rest of World | Lost in translation: The global streaming boom is creating a severe translator shortage (7 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | Facebook Allows Stolen Content to Flourish, Its Researchers Warned (8 min read)
• Axios | The business of privacy is booming (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | When it comes to media credits and bylines, men still take the lion’s share (2 min read)
• The Drum | Why NFL, Abercrombie and BuzzFeed rank among gen Z’s least favorite brands (8 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of November 4, 2021

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

• Vulture | No Subscriptions, Big Money: How Free Streamers Are Changing TV’s Business Model (9 min read)
• Digiday | ‘We are the media company’: Sportsbooks are spending millions on media deals, but publishers should hedge their bets (7 min read)
• Wired | Blind People Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM. In 3 Years, They’ll Have to Do It Again (9 min read)
• Financial Times | South Korea plots its next entertainment blockbuster (12 min read)
• Digiday | The ‘reliability and quality’ of news content plays a significant role in achieving brand safety, new study finds (3 min read)
• The New York Times | How a Mistake by YouTube Shows Its Power Over Media (7 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | How YouTube Sidestepped Woes Over Apple’s Privacy Changes (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Journalists Venture Beyond Their Newsrooms to Try to Cash In (7 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of October 28, 2021

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

• AP | EXPLAINER: Just what are ‘The Facebook Papers,’ anyway? (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | ‘Definitely not the results we want’: Facebook staff lamented ‘perverse incentives’ for media (12 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Google Charges More Than Twice Its Rivals in Ad Deals, Unredacted Suit Says (6 min read)
• WNIP | What do we mean by innovation? And why is implementing it so darned hard for news organizations? (9 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Digital Fatigue Overwhelms Consumers (2 min read)
• Protocol | They left Facebook’s integrity team. Now they want the world to know how it works. (10 min read)
• The Washington Post | Your browser can tell websites how to treat your data. But companies didn’t have to listen — until now (6 min read)
• Northwestern | Medill Launches Groundbreaking Subscriber Engagement Tool (9 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of October 21, 2021

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

• Motherboard | Facebook Says Extremely Common Thing It Does Is Bad When Reporters Do It (3 min read)
• Reuters | U.S. bill would stop Big Tech favoring its own products (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How YouTube Makes Sure Its Hitmakers Don’t Stumble (7 min read)
• The Drum | TikTok set to become top social media platform in 2022, leaving rivals in its wake (1 min read)
• MediaPost | Amazon quietly transitions name of ad business in first global ad campaign (3 min read)
• Financial Times | Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business (4 min read)
• ABC News | Sinclair Broadcast Group hit with ransomware attack (3 min read)
• Variety | ‘I Screwed Up’: Netflix’s Ted Sarandos Addresses Dave Chappelle Fallout (5 min read)

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

• Politico | Europe’s top ‘tech cop’ is ready to take on Big Tech with America (2 min read)
• Vox Recode | The Atlantic wants to hire newsletter writers — and it wants their subscribers, too (5 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | Local TV Giants Are Coming for CNN’s Ad Dollars (6 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | Disney Meets Roadblocks to Releasing Movies in China (6 min read)
• Gallup | Americans’ Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record (3 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | The Rise of the Robo-Voices (6 min read)
• NiemanLab| Here’s why The Continent asked its readers if it should accept an advertising deal (4 min read)
• New York Times | Lawmakers See Path to Rein In Tech, but It Isn’t Smooth (7 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of October 7, 2021

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

• Aljazeera | Facebook products ‘harm children, stoke division’: Whistleblower (4 min read)
• The New York Times | What They Saw in Ozy (11 min read)
• Variety | NBCU and YouTube TV Clinch New Agreement, No Price Increase for Streaming Service (2 min read)
• MediaPost | FTC’s Slaughter Blasts ‘Fundamental Unfairness’ Of ‘Data Economy’ (4 min read)
• TechCrunch | Spotify’s podcast creation tool Anchor gains access to the company’s larger audio ad network (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | U.K. Broadcasters Close Ranks in Battle With Streaming Giants (3 min read)
• Axios | Tech whistleblower launches site for tech whistleblowers (2 min read)
• The Verge | Google files document production demand against one of its biggest public critics (1 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of September 30, 2021

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

• Digiday | Why some advertisers could be reluctant to get on board with Google’s modeled measurement train (5 min read)
• The Financial Times | Streaming piracy helps cinemas make case for exclusive theatrical ‘window’ (5 min read)
• The New York Times | “Crisis of Trust in the Media”: Inside A.G. Sulzberger’s Top ‘Times’ Project (4 min read)
• Reuters | Australia challenges Google’s ad dominance, calls for data-use rules (3 min read)
• Campaign | Magna: U.S. ad spending to surpass $300 billion by 2022 (3 min read)
• The Guardian | Diversity in top media jobs is ‘woeful’, says Ofcom (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | Time to turn off Facebook’s digital fire hose (4 min read)
• Freedom House | The Global Drive to Control Big Tech (45 min read)

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

• The Verge | Facebook is starting to share more about what it demotes in News Feed (3 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Culture change takes years’: Facing ongoing calls for DE&I gains, publishers set new standards for hiring practices (9 min read)
• AdAge | The streaming wars—everything marketers should know (7 min read)
• The New York Times | No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image (10 min read)
• Protocol | Google’s latest plans for Chromecast are all about free TV (2 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter |  YouTube Is “Neck-and-Neck With Netflix on Revenue,” Says Exec (2 min read)
• Source | I’m redesigning brainstorming for asynchronous participation and I love it (7 min read)
• The Streamable | The Next Streaming ‘Plus’ on Your Screen Could Be Local News (2 min read)
• Online News Association | News organizations: Here’s what your teams are trying to tell you about burnout (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | The Facebook Files (15-90 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of September 16, 202