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

• CNN | Facebook bans news in Australia as fight with government escalates (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Is Suddenly Paying for News in Australia. What About Everywhere Else? (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | ViacomCBS Goes ‘All-In’ on Streaming, But Without Many of Its Top Shows (8 min read)
• Knight-Cronkite News Lab | Thinking beyond the buzzword What does ‘engaged’ journalism mean for you, your audience…and your bottom line? (8 min read)
• Reuters| News Corp signs news partnership deal with Google (3 min read)
• Reuters | Google’s $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Big Tech’s Next Big Problem Could Come From People Like ‘Mr. Sweepy’ (6 min read)
• Axios | Entertainment giants focus on free streaming (1 min read)
• The Verge | Can Anyone Moderate Podcasts? (9 min read)
• Recode Media | New York Times CEO Meredith Levien on the future of news, and her newspaper (42 min listen

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

• CNBC | Now that Trump’s gone, media companies will have to figure out how news fits into streaming future (8 min read)
• Axios | Publishers see new life in the old open web (3 min read)
• Digiday | Smart TVs have become the new front in the connected TV platform battle (5 min read)
• American Press Institute | How a small-town paper is applying conflict mediation skills to its opinion content (10 min read)
• CNBC | Australia’s media bill could become law ‘fairly soon’ despite Google and Facebook objections, minister says (4 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers look to allay employee fears over a return to the office by offering additional flexibility (5 min read)
• Poynter | Can better corrections improve news readers’ trust? (5 min read)

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

• Recode | Big Tech is so big it doesn’t need its founders anymore (5 min read)
• The Financial Times | Sports leagues should explore how to co-own rights with streaming services to reach wider audiences at a price more people are willing to pay (4 min read)
• Digiday | Why Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny (5 min read)
• AdExchanger | Facebook Is Testing A New In-App Screen On iOS 14 To Convince Users To Opt Into Tracking (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | Journalists are grappling with their relationships to big tech companies. It’s time for academics to do the same. (10 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Facebook to Test News Feed Controls for Advertisers (2 min read)
• The Atlantic | The Government Didn’t Foresee How Facebook Would Behave (5 min read)
• MediaPost | New CTV Ad Fraud: $30M To $50M In Theft (1 min read)
• The Drum | ‘Binary opt-ins no longer sustainable’: a look at GroupM and Unilever’s Data Ethics Compass (2 min read)

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

• The Financial Times | Big Tech’s reckoning over paying for news (3 min read)
• CNBC | SPAC boom could finally provide an exit ramp for digital publishers like Buzzfeed and Vice Media (8 min read)
• Axios | The podcast business is booming, but few are making money (3 min read)
• Variety | How Kids Television Became the Most Heated Front in the Streaming Wars (14 min read)
• Bloomberg | Hulu, Peacock to Share Streaming Rights to ‘Modern Family’ (2 min read)
• Local News Initiative | Medill Survey Finds News Media’s Money Worries Overwhelming, but Few See Ads as Best Answer (7 min read)
• Recode | Big Tech nemesis Lina Khan is gaining traction for top Biden antitrust role (4 min read)
• The New York Times | What We Learned From Apple’s New Privacy Labels (7 min read)
• Vox | Poll: Most Americans want to break up Big Tech (3 min read)
• TechCrunch | Facebook News launches in the UK, the first international market for its curated news portal (4 min read)

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

• The New York Times | How to Make Data Privacy Real (6 min read)
• Protocol | What TV remotes tell us about power struggles in streaming (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Netflix Will No Longer Borrow, Ending Its Run of Debt (4 min read)
• Los Angeles Times | How fast do you cancel streaming services? It’s a problem for Hollywood (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook (8 min read)
• Reuters | Google and French publishers sign agreement over copyright (2 min read)
• Sportico | The ‘Fourth Quarter’ Of Sports Media: Streaming Invites New Bidders For Events And League Rights (6 min read)
• Axios |Digital reading has exploded during the pandemic (1 min read)
• The Washington Post | Three steps to help treat America’s debilitating information disorder (4 min read)

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

• The Guardian | Google admits to running ‘experiments’ which remove some media sites from its search results (3 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Big Tech’s attention economy can be reformed. Here’s how. (11 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek | Spotify Bets Big on Podcasts as a Path to Profitability (16 min read)
• Bloomberg | Warner Bros. Guarantees Filmmakers a Payday for HBO Max Movies (6 min read)
• Pew Research | News Use Across Social Media Platforms in 2020 (3 min read)
• Reynolds Journalism Institute | Measuring progress on inclusivity (3 min read)
• Harvard Business Review | How to Hold Social Media Accountable for Undermining Democracy (7 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | Spending on Streaming Services and Software Could Reach $112 Billion in 2021 (1 min read)

• Deadline | Streaming Boom Reaches 2021 Crossroads: Can Big Media Really Catch Netflix? (12 min read)
• The Information | Why TV Advertising Won’t Recover What It Lost in 2020 (6 min read)
• Los Angeles Times | YouTube has gone from Hollywood pariah to partner. Meet the executive who led the change (9 min read)
• Adweek | Luxe Brands Expected to Spur an Audio Ad ‘Gold Rush’ in 2021 at The New York Times (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | From BuzzFeed to Axios, Digital Media Players Prepare for Deal Frenzy (5 min read)
• The Markup | In Georgia, Facebook’s Changes Brought Back a Partisan News Feed (9 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Roku Torments Entertainment Giants in Quest to Dominate Streaming (11 min read)
• Vulture | The 5 Stories That Shaped the Streaming Industry This Year (13 min read)
• The New Republic | Making Sense of the Facebook Menace (24 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of December 17, 2020

• New York Times | 10 States Accuse Google of Abusing Monopoly in Online Ads (4 min read)
• Axios | FTC launches sweeping privacy study of top tech platforms (1 min read)
• BuzzFeed | Facebook Gets Rich Off Of Ads That Rip Off Its Users (24 min read)
• Adweek | Adweek Exclusive: Publishers Predict Revenue Growth in 2021 (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Cannot Buy Its Way Out of Competition (5 min read)
• CUNY | NYC Ad Spending Initiative Boosts Community News Outlets (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Tech Giants Face New Rules in Europe, Backed by Huge Fines (7 min read)
• CJR | The 2020 Journalism Crisis: a year in review (6 min read)
• TechCrunch | Major U.S. news publishers join the Coalition for App Fairness advocacy group to fight the ‘Apple tax’ (3 min read)
• BuzzFeed | Facebook Is Developing A Tool To Summarize Articles So You Don’t Have To Read Them (4 min read)

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

• Buzzfeed | In 2020, Disinformation Broke The US (18 min read)
• The Washington Post | Five myths about the news business (6 min read)
• The Lenfest Institute | Inside TAPinto’s franchise model for local news (15 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google, Facebook Win Key Concession in Law to Pay for News in Australia (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Who’s Behind the Fight Between Warner Bros. and Hollywood? It’s AT&T (8 min read)
• Pew Research Center | The American public shows mixed familiarity with new and evolving forms of news (19 min read)
• Nextgov | Why Data Privacy Is Crucial to Fighting Disinformation (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | Google is now blocking the ads publishers sell if they don’t meet Google’s standards (4 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Google, Facebook and Amazon Gain as Coronavirus Reshapes Ad Spending (4 min read)
• Reuters | U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources (2 min read)
• NBC News | Trump threatens to veto defense bill over social media protections (2 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Not something we think about’: Facebook News still a non-factor in publishers’ plans (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Hollywood’s Obituary, the Sequel. Now Streaming. (14 min read)
• NiemanLab | The moral argument for diversity in newsrooms is also a business argument — and you need both (25 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Europe Doubles Down on Data Protection to Ward Off Silicon Valley, Chinese Influence (5 min read)
• Ars Technica |Ajit Pai announces departure from FCC after four-year deregulatory blitz (5 min read)
• Reuters Institute | Newsrooms need young journalists. Here’s how to create a place where they can flourish (11 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Zuckerberg and Dorsey Face Harsh Questioning From Lawmakers (15 min read)
• EFF | Don’t Blame Section 230 for Big Tech’s Failures. Blame Big Tech. (9 min read)
• Wired | The Senate’s Section 230 Discourse Somehow Keeps Getting Dumber (5 min read)
• Entertainment Weekly | Disney CEO hints at plans for more PVOD releases on Disney+ in wake of Mulan (2 min read)
• The Wrap | Cinemark Signs Deal With Universal to Shorten Theatrical Window (2 min read)
• Digiday | ‘More is more’: News publishers dial up the marketing heat on their subscription products (4 min read)
• One Zero | The Battle Over Facebook’s Top 10 List (10 min read)
• CJR | The Substackerati (25 min read)
• Adweek | How The Ad Industry is Lobbying The Corridors of Power (4 min read)

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

• Adweek | Publishers Look Beyond Politics to Mitigate Deflating ‘Trump Bump’ (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Can Spotify be the one to convince people to pay for podcasts? (6 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | What Biden means for Big Tech—and Google in particular (6 min read)
• Politico | EU unveils antitrust charges against Amazon (2 min read)
• Journalism.co.uk | Where does the buck stop for social platforms when it comes to responsible publishing? (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | Apple, Sony Both Held Talks About Buying Podcaster Wondery (3 min read)