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

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Hollywood Movies Flood Piracy Sites Hours After Release (7 min read)
• The New York Times | A Thumbs Down for Streaming Privacy (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Why we all lose if cinemas can’t solve their existential crisis (5 min read)
• Digiday | This fall, TV networks, streamers and ad buyers will tune into the return of TV (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | How the pandemic (sort of) changed the way we consume news (7 min read)
• Washingtonian | Inside the Plan to Make Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post the Everything Newspaper (11 min read)
• Mathew Ball | Netflix and Video Games (35 min read)
• The New Yorker | Why Facebook Is Suddenly Afraid of the F.T.C. (14 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of August 19, 2021

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

• Bloomberg Businessweek | Amazon’s Move Into Podcasts Was a Big Advertising Play All Along (7 min read)
• Vulture | 12 Hollywood Insiders Reveal Who’s Really Winning the Streaming Wars (10 min read)
• Harper’s | Bad News (25 min read)
• The Markup | How The Daily Wire Uses Facebook’s Targeted Advertising to Build Its Brand (6 min read)
• The New York Times | A First Amendment Precedent (3 min read)
• Poynter | Some good news, some uncertain news regarding the media in Afghanistan (3 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | Does Disney+ Need to Absorb Hulu and ESPN+ to Rival Netflix? (5 min read)
• AdWeek | Here’s How the Biggest Streaming Services Stack Up in Mid-2021 (7 min read)
• Digiday | Employees praised for pandemic productivity question new pressures to return to the office (5 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of August 12, 2021

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

• The New York Times | Apple’s iPhones Will Include New Tools to Flag Child Sexual Abuse (6 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Test and learn as we go’: Publishers’ new mode of ad selling faces first test as delta variant spreads (3 min read)
• Variety | Inside the War on Apple and Google App Stores  (13 min read)
• Digiday | ‘It’s all a matter of within limits’: Advertising’s economic recovery is in full swing, but can it last? (6 min read)
• Axios | Bloomberg Media hits 300,000 subscribers  (1 min read)
• Adweek | Snap Outlines How It Keeps Misinformation From Spreading on Snapchat (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Inside the White House-Facebook Rift Over Vaccine Misinformation (10 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Newsrooms are failing to protect women journalists. Survivors hope Felicia Sonmez’s lawsuit will change that (6 min read)
• Axios | The age of the à la carte internet (3 min read)
• NBC News | Twitter’s racist algorithm is also ageist, ableist and Islamaphobic, researchers find (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of August 5, 2021

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

• Digiday | Here’s what’s behind the rise of custom algorithms for digital ad decisions (4 min read)
• Wired | France Cracked Down on Google’s Ad Tech. What’s Next? (9 min read)
• Axios | Ad boom rains billions on big tech (2 min read)
• Digiday | California Attorney General says popular, digital ad opt-outs from trade groups don’t comply with CCPA (4 min read)
• Axios | Vaccine misinformation spreads to every kind of media (3 min read)
• Variety | Facebook’s First-Ever Ticketed Movie Premiere: 9/11 Documentary ‘The Outsider’ to Screen on Social Platform (2 min read)
• CJR | All In (19 min read)
• Wired | The Privacy Battle That Apple Isn’t Fighting (7 min read)
• Vice | Facebook Just Suspended the Accounts of Some of Its Biggest Critics (5 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of July 29, 2021

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

• Journalism.co.uk | What the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2021 means for your audio strategy (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Small steps, but: Most big American newspaper newsrooms are now led by someone other than a white man (6 min read)
• Robin Berjon | Privacy: A Quick Reality Check (7 min read)
• The New York Times | Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming (8 min read)
• Digiday | In some California privacy cases, analytics trackers are in the crosshairs — and violators could be charged by the cookie (4 min read)
• Local News Initiative | News Unchained: More Outlets Going Back to Local Ownership (15 min read)
• NiemanLab | “We disagree on what the space should be”: Editors discuss the future of comment sections (7 min read)
• World Association of News Publishers | WAN-IFRA announces 2021 European Digital Media Awards winners (7 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of July 22, 2021

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Apple Looks to Lease Hollywood Hub for Filming Shows and Movies (4 min read)
• LA Times | Op-Ed: How the streaming wars are changing what you watch (5 min read)
• The New Yorker | The Ethics of a Deepfake Anthony Bourdain Voice (10 min read)
• AdExchanger | The Case For Taking The Privacy High Road (4 min read)
• Digiday | When the White House invoked the s-word, it gave new legitimacy to ‘surveillance’ advertising (6 min read)
• MediaPost | Theaters Not Happy About ‘Black Widow’ Box Office Decline, Blame Disney+ (2 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | Streaming, Cable Grow Audience Share in June as Broadcast Shrinks (2 min read)
• Deadline | Surgeon General Calls On Tech Platforms, Media Outlets To Take Greater Steps To Combat Covid-19 Misinformation; White House Singles Out Facebook (5 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of July 15, 2021

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

• Poynter | Not just a wave, but a movement: journalists unionize at record numbers (11 min read)
• Politico | CTRL-ALT-Delete? The internet industry’s D.C. powerhouse vanishes. (12 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Global Streaming Video Revenue to Hit $94B In 2025, PwC Forecasts (6 min read)
• Axios | “Black Widow” brings in $60 million+ from streaming on opening weekend. (2 min read)
• Observer | Every Movie Theater vs. Streaming Release Is Riddled With Pros and Cons (15 min read)
• The New York Times | France fines Google $593 million for not negotiating ‘in good faith’ with news publishers. (2 min read)
• Monday Note | Sorry publishers, but your digital products suck (6 min read)
• Protocol | Concern trolls and power grabs: Inside Big Tech’s angry, geeky, often petty war for your privacy (25 min read)
• PressGazette | UK publishers could be hit by ‘right to be forgotten’ deletion requests after ECHR judgment (6 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of July 1, 2021

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

• Politico | ‘Stories Aren’t Falling Off the Trees Anymore’: A Conversation With the Women Running Washington Newsrooms (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Judge Throws Out 2 Antitrust Cases Against Facebook (7 min read)
• Wired | Actually, the Antitrust Case Against Facebook Is Very Much Alive (9 min read)
• Vulture | The Hottest Streamer (6 min read)
• NiemanLab | As the pandemic recedes in the United States, publishers opt to keep experimenting with virtual events (5 min read)
• Digiday | How media companies are switching up summer Fridays after the pandemic (3 min read)
• CNN | Why Los Angeles Times wants to be a ‘media platform,’ not just a newspaper (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Danish media club together to make US tech giants pay for news (3 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of June 24, 2021

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

• CNBC | How Roku used the Netflix playbook to beat bigger players and rule streaming video (16 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Is Dominating This Hidden Market With No Rules (5 min read)
• NBC News | Steven Spielberg signs deal with Netflix in latest sign of evolving Hollywood (3 min read)
• TechCrunch | International coalition joins the call to ban ‘surveillance advertising’ (8 min read)
• Morning Brew | Nearly half of all ads on fake news sites come from Google, study finds (1 min read)
• US News & World Reports | From Biden to Congress, Big Tech Is Under Mounting Pressure (5 min read)
• Poynter | US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media, Reuters Institute report finds (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Many people worldwide say they’re losing interest in news … but more are paying for it (5 min read)