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

• Digiday | ‘A shady move’: Apple News+ Safari change automatically redirecting traffic to itself infuriates publishers (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | Disinformation for profit: How a Florida ‘dealmaker’ turns conservative outrage into cash (9 min read)
• McKinsey & Company | Building a digital New York Times: CEO Mark Thompson (19 min read)
• Reuters | U.S. judge ends decades-old movie theater rules governing Hollywood (2 min read)
• Poynter | The pick is in. It’s Kamala Harris. Now how will the media cover her? The attacks on Harris will come. Some will be fair. Some will not. How the media handles the unfair ones will determine just how far we’ve come. (8 min read)
• GeekWire | Filing shows where Microsoft is really making its money; reveals M&A spending; adds Netflix, Hulu, Tencent to list of rivals (4 min read)
• ZDNet | Nine in ten Americans view data privacy as a human right, according to new report (3 min read)
• NBC News | Sensitive to claims of bias, Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages (8 min read)

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

• The New York Times | More Than 1,000 Companies Boycotted Facebook. Did It Work? (5 min read)
• Wired | Can Killing Cookies Save Journalism? (13 min read)
• The Bullwork | The New Network (4 min read)
• Current Affairs | The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free (19 min read)
• NiemanLab | Newsrooms can prosper with remote work — but they have to make the right adjustments first (4 min read)
• ComProp Research | Follow the Money: How the Online Advertising Ecosystem Funds COVID-19 Junk News and Disinformation (20 min read)
• The Cut | The Newsroom Where Politics Is Not About Men (10 min read)
• The New York Times | Digital Revenue Exceeds Print for 1st Time for New York Times Company (4 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Lawmakers, United in Their Ire, Lash Out at Big Tech’s Leaders (7 min read)
• The Markup | Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google (20 min read)
• Wired | Follow the Money: How Digital Ads Subsidize the Worst of the Web (14 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Accelerated the need to get there faster’: 5 changes that will drive the future of media post coronavirus crisis (4 min read)
• Poynter | Are digital startups the great local news hope or a disappointment? (10 min read)
• Folio: | “The Inbox Is the New Doorstep,” As Newsletters Evolve, Publishers Adapt Their Tactics (8 min read)
• Axios | Scoop: Facebook boycotters lobby lawmakers on antitrust (3 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Keep the medium premium’: Podcaster creators mull raising their ad loads while preserving high listener engagement (3 min read)

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

• Politico | Advertisers struggle for power over Facebook as boycotts surge (8 min read)
• Variety | R.I.P. Cable TV: Why Hollywood Is Slowly Killing Its Biggest Moneymaker (15 min read)
• CNBC | Media deal making takes a breather amid coronavirus pandemic (2 min view)
• Digiday | ‘The downloads are back’: Podcasting finishes the first half of 2020 strong (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | WSJ Journalists Ask Publisher for Clearer Distinction Between News and Opinion Content (3 min read)
• AdAge | Watch: Gannett’s Chief Revenue Officer on the state of publishing (30 min view)
• Recode | How Hollywood accidentally built Netflix (30 min listen)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Google Pushes YouTube Over Rivals (15 min read)
• The New York Times | How May Google Fight an Antitrust Case? Look at This Little-Noticed Paper (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google Search Upgrades Make It Harder for Websites to Win Traffic (9 min read)
• CNBC | The biggest media and technology companies are having an identity crisis (5 min read)
• Digiday |  Publishers are wary of the latest attempt to standardize GDPR compliance (4 min read)
• AdAge | Google and Amazon are funneling money to conspiracy sites, study says (3 min read)
• The Financial Times |  Carnage for digital publishers in what was meant to be turnround year (7 min read)
• NiemanLab | What makes people avoid the news? Trust, age, political leanings — but also whether their country’s press is free (5 min read)
• NBC News | Hedge funds scoop up local newspapers withering under COVID-19 cuts (4 min read)

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

• CNN | Facebook ad boycott organizers met with Zuckerberg. It didn’t go well (5 min read)
• NBC News | Facebook prepares to dig in as advertising boycott continues (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google, Amazon Funnel Money to Virus Conspiracy Sites: Study (3 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | The internet is changing drastically for Hong Kong’s citizens (2 min read)
• Vulture | The Remaking of Comedy Central (18 min read)
• NiemanLab | Newsonomics: There’s no Knight in shining armor coming to rescue McClatchy (10 min read)
• Adweek | CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Set for Antitrust Showdown (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Decisions Were ‘Setbacks for Civil Rights,’ Audit Finds (4 min read)
• Digiday |  WTF is California’s new, and potentially stronger, privacy law? (5 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Here Come the 4 Horsemen of the Techopolypse (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Facebook’s Tensions With Advertisers Predate the Boycott (6 min read)
• PressGazette | News Corp chief Robert Thomson: ‘Dysfunctional digital landscape’ rewards tech giants not publishers (3 min read)
• CNN | Journalists like Maria Ressa face death threats and jail for doing their jobs. Facebook must take its share of the blame (14 min read)
• The New York Times | The New York Times Pulls Out of Apple News (4 min read)
• MediaPost | Facebook To Seek Supreme Court Intervention In Privacy Battle Over ‘Like’ Button (2 min read)
• CNN | The hard truth about the Facebook ad boycott: Nothing matters but Zuckerberg (7 min read)
• The Guardian | What’s wrong with WhatsApp (23 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing (5 min read)
• The Conversation | Journalists believe news and opinion are separate, but readers can’t tell the difference (6 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell Has No Time for Hollywood Egos (12 min read)
• The New York Times | A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists (10 min read)
• Lawfare | In Privacy Legislation, a Private Right of Action Is Not an All-or-Nothing Proposition (14 min read)
• Bloomberg | Facebook Dealt Blow as German Court Strikes Business Model (3 min read)
• Folio: | Is the Facebook Ad Boycott an Opportunity for Publishers? (4 min read)
• Annenberg Public Policy Center | Freedom and Accountability: A Transatlantic Framework for Moderating Speech Online (42 min read)

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

• AP | Juneteenth: A day of joy and pain – and now national action (6 min read)
• Axios | News Shapers Honoring Juneteenth (live virtual event today @ 12:30-1:15pm ET)
• BET | Spend Juneteenth with BET’s Freedom Day Marathon (30 sec trailer)
• CNN | Let Juneteenth be White America’s wake-up call to be a better ally (5 min read)
• Ebony | Miss Juneteenth exclusive with Nicole Beharie (5 min read)
• Essence | Juneteenth and national new beginnings (6 min read)
• MLB.com | Major League Baseball celebrates Juneteenth (6 min read)
• MotorTrend | Driving While Black: Chronicling a Chapter in America’s History on the Road (13 minute read)
• MotorTrend | Racing While Black: How Willy T. Ribbs Battled Racism on the Racetrack (14 min read)
• National Geographic | Why Juneteenth is a celebration of hope (11 min read)
• NPR: Celebrating Juneteenth: A reading of the Emancipation Proclamation (6 min listen)
• The New York Times | How We Juneteenth (Article series)
• The Root | Juneteenth Is Finally Entering the Mainstream American Consciousness. Now Make It An Official Federal Holiday (3 min watch)
• Smithsonian – National Museum of African American History & Culture | The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth (2 min read)
• The Texas Tribune | U.S. Sen. John Cornyn will file bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday (3 min read)
• The Undefeated | Like the original Juneteenth celebrants, we are still fighting for black humanity (6 min read)
• The Washington Post | Why hundreds of American newsrooms have started capitalizing the ‘b’ in ‘Black’ (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | Original ‘Juneteenth’ order found in the National Archives (3 min read)
• USA Today | Juneteenth TV specials to celebrate: ‘Black-ish’ marathon, ‘Selma,’ ‘Get Out’ and more (5 min read)
• Vox | Juneteenth, explained (7 min watch OR 12 min read)

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

• Rappler | Maria Ressa, Rey Santos Jr convicted of cyber libel (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Conviction reveals Facebook’s dangers (4 min read)
• Variety | NBCUniversal to Madison Avenue: We Have Bigger Issues Than Changing TV’s Upfront (3 min read)
• Benedict Evans | News by the ton: 75 years of US advertising (8 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal |  Justice Department to Propose Limiting Internet Companies’ Protections (5 min read)
• Vice News | Journalism’s Top Ethics Expert Isn’t Concerned With Right and Wrong (27 min read)
• Knight Foundation | The Future Of Tech Policy: American Views (3 min read)
• Infotagion | Episode 15: Yael Eisenstat and Jason Kint (41 min listen)

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

• The New York Times | Inside the Revolts Erupting in America’s Big Newsrooms (18 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Still dreadful, but trending in the right direction’: Digital ad spend began recovering in May (4 min read)
• Mediatel | How to fix programmatic advertising: the whole story (17 min read)
• Adweek | Why Journalists Are Walking Out of Newsrooms in Protest (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Morally Impossible’: Some Advertisers Take a Timeout From Facebook (7 min read)
• Time | Facebook Cannot Fix Itself. But Trump’s Effort to Reform Section 230 Is Wrong (6 min read)
• AdExchanger | How To Un-Pause Ad Spend (4 min read)
• TechCrunch | Facebook News launches to all in US with addition of local news and video (3 min read)

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

• Vanity Fair | “Higher Churn and a Smaller Audience”: The Pandemic Has Exposed the Haves and Have-Nots of Journalism (9 min read)
• Digiday | How TikTok is taking lessons from the record industry in building a media business (4 min read)
• MediaPost | Marketers Bring Antitrust Suit Against Google (2 min read)
• Medium | The Next Media Opportunity: Talent, Reputation and Lessons from Record Labels (10 min read)
• Beet.TV | Semantics & Suitability Bring Brands Back To News: CNN’s Cook (6 min view)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Podcast Playlist: Episode Lengths Shortening as New Shows Proliferate, Report Finds (4 min)
• The Atlantic | Trump Is Doing All of This for Zuckerberg (12 min read)
• National Press Club | Journalism groups call for police nationwide to halt use of violence, arrests against journalists covering protests (2 min read)