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

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

• The New York Times | Can TV Get Big Again? (6 min read)
• Digiday | Why publishers say opening up remote hiring has grown and greatly improved the applicant pool (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Some questions (and answers) about the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (9 min read)
• Forbes | Nielsen, The MRC And The VAB, How Will It End? We Asked Some Experts (12 min read)
• The Fix | The myth of cannibalization in the media still persists. Text, video and audio can all work (6 min read)
• Bloomberg | Disney Throws Theaters Lifeline With Balance of 2021 Film Slate (2 min read)
• Poynter | Opinion: Opt-in to op-eds, a final attempt to distinguish news from opinion (7 min read)
• Broadcasting+Cable | Shrinking Media Industry Scrambles for Tech Talent (3 min read)

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

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

• The Guardian | High court rules Australian media companies can be liable for defamatory comments posted on Facebook pages (4 min read)
• The New Republic | Big Tech’s Attacks on Biden’s Anti-Monopoly Regulators Are a Joke (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Close Email, Open Netflix. How TV Replaced the Commute as a Workday Wind-Down. (4 min read)
• The New York Times | How’s Hollywood to Plan When It Doesn’t Know Who’s Watching What? (10 min read)
• Bloomberg | U.S. Antitrust Cops Unveil Data Backing Facebook Monopoly Case (3 min read)
• TechCrunch |  Microsoft launches a personalized news service, Microsoft Start (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | This is just the start of Apple and Google’s app store wars (4 min read)
• Reuters Institute | Overcoming indifference: what attitudes towards news tell us about building trust (90 min read)
• NiemanReports| As the World Changes, Sports Journalism Needs to Keep Meeting the Moment (6 min read)

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

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

• The New York Times | Apple Settlement Gives App Developers a Way to Avoid Its Commission (4 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | How the ‘Black Widow’ Battle Could Break the Mold on Hollywood Dealmaking (4 min read)
• CNBC | The fall of the SPAC market has digital media companies in disagreement about best path forward (6 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers rethink their value to stave off subscription fatigue among new paying readers (4 min read)
• HBR | You’ve Built a Racially Diverse Team. But Have You Built an Inclusive Culture? (7 min read)
• Digiday | This fall, tech companies will try to push private browsing into the mainstream (5 min read)
• Smashing Magazine | Pushing Back Against Privacy Infringement On The Web (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of August 26, 2021