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

• The Financial Times |  How WarnerMedia and Discovery plan to forge a media behemoth (7 min read)
• Stratechery | Distribution and Demand (11 min read)
• Axios | Big media to get a lot bigger (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | The U.S. Media Index database shows news consumers who owns what (1 min read)
• Wired | How Apple screwed Facebook (6 min read)
• The Atlantic | Can the News Be Fixed? (15 min read)
• The Washington Post | The Washington Post will soon have a woman as its top editor. And yes, that matters. (4 min read)
• New York | Tech vs. Journalism Inside the nasty battle between Silicon Valley and the reporters who write about it. (27 min read)

Last week’s list: DCN’s must reads: week of May 13, 2021

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

• Protocol | In Biden’s broadband plan, cable is in for the fight of its life (11 min read)
• The New York Times | Why Is New TV So Much Like Cable? (4 min read)
• The Drum | The CTV ad measurement conundrum that creates more questions than answers (10 min read)
• Nieman Lab | It turns out no one wants to be tracked all across their iPhones by Facebook (or anyone else) (3 min read)
• Axios | Tech giants have all become creator companies (1 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek | Streaming TV Commercials Are Bewildering, Repetitive, and Growing Like Crazy (7 min read)
• Vox | National Geographic faced up to its racist past. Did it actually get better? (27 min read)
• Study Hall | The COVID Reporters Are Not Okay. Extremely Not Okay. (24 min read)

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

• Vox | How subscriptions took over our lives (10 min read)
• The Drum | Can niche streaming services co-exist with the giants of OTT? (6 min read)
• CNBC | Tech giants’ earnings showed their absolute dominance (4 min read)
• Iris Chyi |The Impact of Covid-19 on 20 U.S. Newspapers’ Print and Digital Circulation (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | Why your favorite new NPR show might sound a lot like a podcast  (7 min read)
• Wired | The One Legal Question That Will Probably Decide the Epic-Apple Lawsuit (7 min read)
• The Guardian | Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board (4 min read)
• CNBC | Amazon’s ads business is generating nearly $7 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating (2 min read)
• ICJF | How Disinformation and Hate Fuel Online Attacks Against Women Journalists (5 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal |Apple, Spotify and the New Battle Over Who Wins Podcasting (6 min read)
• Wired | Why Lawmakers Are So Interested in Apple’s and Google’s ‘Rents’ (4 min read)
• Digiday| Publishers like The Guardian become conscientious FLoC objectors, as The New York Times and others open to testing the controversial tech (6 min read)
• CNBC | YouTube is a media juggernaut that could soon equal Netflix in revenue (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | EU to charge Apple with anti-competitive behaviour this week (2 min read)
• Axios | Congress drags algorithms out of the shadows (4 min read)
• CNBC | How local TV stations plan to remain relevant as viewers shift to streaming (9 min read)
• The Drum | The current state of US state data privacy laws (9 min read)

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

• The New York Times | In the Roaring Twenties, Ads Make a Comeback (6 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Researchers Uncover Advertising Scam Targeting Streaming-TV Apps (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Netflix’s Dominance Starts to Slow as Rivals Gain (5 min read)
• CBS News | Apple set to release long-awaited iOS update to restrict tracking by advertisers (4 min read)
• Variety |  Gen Z Ranks Watching TV, Movies as Fifth Among Top 5 Entertainment Activities (3 min read)
• The New York Times | The Supreme Court’s Increasingly Dim View of the News Media (5 min read)
• The Ringer | Live Sports Are the Next Great Battle of the Streaming Wars (12 min read)
• E&P | Wave of New Newspapers Sue Google and Facebook (3 min read)

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

• Wired | Antitrust and Privacy Are on a Collision Course (9 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How Amazon Strong-Arms Partners Using Its Power Across Multiple Businesses (13 min read)
• The New York Times | Why Buy a Yacht When You Can Buy a Newspaper? (9 min read)
• Adage | Tuning into Trends: CTV is an Engagement Cornerstone (3 min read)
• Brave | Why Brave Disables FLoC (8 min read)
• Digiday |  Why growth of women’s sports coverage and advertiser interest is bogged down by small steps forward (7 min read)
• The New York Times | Former Condé Nast Editor Plans a Vanity Fair for the Substack Era (3 min read)
• The Guardian | How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower’s account (23 min read)
• Variety | Survey: 39% of Americans Say Netflix Has Best Original Content of All Streaming Services (3 min read)
• Platformer | Announcing Sidechannel, a new community for Platformer subscribers (7 min read)

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

• The Atlantic | Scale Was the God That Failed (7 min read)
• Digiday | Publisher ad alliances get a new look as cookie changes loom (5 min read)
• Protocol | Justice Thomas argues for making Facebook, Twitter and Google utilities (3 min read)
• Recode | Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained (10 min read)
• Bloomberg | Streaming Services Have Finally Run Out of New Shows. Kind of. (8 min read)
• The Washington Post | The battle for Tribune: Inside the campaign to find new owners for a legendary group of newspapers (9 min read)
• TechCrunch | Apple shares more details about its imminent App Tracking Transparency feature (2 min read)
• Wired | What Really Caused Facebook’s 500M-User Data Leak? (10 min read)
• The Guardian | Why Silicon Valley’s most astute critics are all women (5 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | How Covid-19 Supercharged the Advertising ‘Triopoly’ of Google, Facebook and Amazon (10 min read)
• Wired | Google and the Age of Privacy Theater (10 min read)
• The New York Times | With Fewer Ads on Streaming, Brands Make More Movies (7 min read)
• NiemanLab | Most U.S. news organizations still won’t let most readers cancel their subscriptions online (3 min read)
• The New Yorker | HGTV Is Getting a Renovation (38 min read)
• PressThink | If you’re worried that journalists have learned nothing from the Trump years. (13 min read)
• CNBC | Kevin Mayer talks about his disappointing departures at Disney and TikTok, and the long decline of pay TV (23 min read)
• Yahoo! Finance | Netflix Tests If Weekly Dose Of Its Content Would Be Better Than Letting You Binge-Watch (2 min read)

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

• Local News Initiative | How Newsrooms Are Building Better Paywalls (7 min read)
• USA Today | Study: Lack of diversity in Hollywood costs industry $10B (2 min read)
• The Financial Times | Old media veterans defy critics to rally in streaming era (4 min read)
• The New York Times | U.K. Podcast Companies Want What the U.S. Has, Looking Past the BBC (7 min read)
• New Statesman | Why BuzzFeed and HuffPost’s decline wasn’t inevitable (5 min read)
• Politico | How Washington fumbled the future (18 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation (33 min read)
• The New York Times | Who Is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Aren’t Racist? (13 min read)

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

• NBC | Biden is loading up his administration with Big Tech’s most prominent critics (4 min read)
• The Information | Banished by Netflix, Advertising Makes Comeback on New Streaming Services (9 min read)
• CNN | Being owned by a billionaire is a struggling newsroom’s dream. But it can turn into a nightmare (12 min read)
• Bloomberg | Tech’s War With News Outlets Flares as U.S. Lawmakers Ready Bill (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Sports Are the Internet’s Secret Key (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Network mapping is a concrete method to include more voices in your reporting (5 min read)
• CJR | What the pandemic means for paywalls (5 min read)
• The Verge | The pirate assembling a better sports streaming service (5 min read)

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

• CNN | Top European media outlet refuses to join Facebook News (2 min read)
• Adweek | NBCU’s Linda Yaccarino on transformation, #ShesMy and gender equity (5 min read)
• Financial Review | How the news media code is a guide to the future of Big Tech (6 min read)
• AdAge| Disney CEO says moviegoing has probably changed forever (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google Rules Out U-Turn on Cookies Policy Attacked by Ad Firms (1 min read)
• CNN | How long should movies be in theaters before streaming? Hollywood is trying to find out (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Mixing public media and digital news startups can amplify the strengths of both — but not without risk (8 min read)
• The Financial Times |  EU must overhaul flagship data protection laws, says a ‘father’ of policy (2 min read)

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

• CNN | Australian law is hailed as ‘a big win for the news business’ with ramifications around the world (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Facebook’s Tussle With Australia Over News Is Just the Beginning (6 min read)
• CNN | ‘Thank God for The Texas Tribune’: Power crisis shines light on local news (6 min read)
• The Atlantic | The Government Needs to Find Big Tech a New Business Model (8 min read)
• Reuters | Exclusive: French antitrust investigators say Google breached its orders on talks with news publishers – sources (2 min read)
• AP | Microsoft, EU publishers seek Australia-style news payments (2 min read)
• Digiday | How The New York Times and CafeMedia have taken divergent approaches to complying with California’s privacy law (6 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | What we can learn from the Facebook-Australia news debacle (6 min read)
• Axios | Pandemic drives nonprofit media boom (2 min read)
• Reuters Institute | News site Stuff left Facebook. Seven months later, traffic is just fine and trust is higher (5 min read)
• The Verge | California can finally enforce its landmark net neutrality law, judge rules (1 min read)