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)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Global Ad Spending Expected to Rebound Faster Than Previously Forecast (4 min read)
• The Atlantic | You Can’t Escape the Attention Economy (9 min read)
• NiemanLab | Nonprofit journalism grew in 2020 — and individual donors played an increasingly large part (5 min read)
• NPR | Lina Khan, Prominent Big Tech Critic, Will Lead The FTC (4 min read)
• NBC News | Lawmakers unveil bipartisan antitrust reforms that could reshape Big Tech (6 min read)
• Axios | After a devastating 2020, the media industry is finally on the mend (2 min read)
• NBC News | What Darnella Frazier’s Pulitzer means for citizen journalism and white gatekeeping (6 min read)
• The Hill | News leaders deal with the post-Trump era (5 min read)

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

• Financial Times | Amazon’s MGM deal doesn’t need to revolutionise streaming to pay off (5 min read)
• Wired | Twitch Turns 10, and the Creator Economy Is in Its Debt (7 min read)
• The New York Times | Google to Pay $270 Million to Settle Antitrust Charges in France (4 min read)
• Axios | The Chernin Group raising $1 billion for new investments (4 min read)
• NBC | Ohio sues Google, claims tech giant should be regulated as public utility (2 min read)
• Digiday | Subscription-based streamers outstrip ad-supported services’ share of watch time (3 min read)
• Financial Times | Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent learn Netflix lessons in content fight (6 min read)
• CNBC| Apple is encroaching on Facebook’s territory like never before with new social features (3 min read)

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

• The New York Times | D.C. Accuses Amazon of Controlling Online Prices (6 min read)
• CNBC | Amazon’s ad revenue is now twice as big as Snap, Twitter, Roku and Pinterest combined (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Big Tech Adversary Poised to Take Assertive FTC Antitrust Role (8 min read)
• Vox | Why Amazon is paying nearly $9 billion for MGM and James Bond (5 min read)
• NPR | Europe Wants Social Media Giants To Do More To Stop Disinformation (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Americans Actually Want Privacy. Shocking. (5 min read)
• AdAge | 7 Post-Pandemic Lessons For The TV Industry (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | Brussels to open formal antitrust probe into Facebook (2 min read)