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

• AdAge | Google’s Digital-Ad Dominance Is Harming Marketers And Publishers, Says New Study (3 min read)
• Adweek | What the Pandemic Means for Publishers (3 min read)
• The Drum | ‘Our priority can’t be to sell advertising’ – Washington Post rethinks revenues in lockdown (5 min read)
• TRUSTX | How to Penetrate the Impenetrable $100 Billion Programmatic Supply Chain (4 min read)
• Digiday | ‘It is not a panacea’: Why log-level data hasn’t lived up to its promise for advertisers (5 min read)

• Adweek | The Race to Build the Perfect Streaming Service (3 min read)
• CNBC | To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made my own (13 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Maybe it’s time to retire the idea of “going viral” (5 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Big Tech Has Crushed the News Business. That’s About to Change. (9 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | From PepsiCo to GM, Big Advertisers Set to Cancel Commitments to TV Networks (5 min read)
• Digiday | Apple plans to add audio versions of publisher articles to Apple News+ (3 min news)
• Adweek | Here’s How Publishers Are Preparing for a Rocky Q2 and Remaining 2020 (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Congress Weighs Coronavirus Aid for Local Newspapers, Broadcasters (2 min read)
• Bloomberg | How Covid-19 Is Changing Entertainment, in Five Charts (4 min read)
• CNN | NYT CEO Mark Thompson: Coronavirus is an opportunity to ‘prove the value of trustworthy news’ (5 min view)
• Digiday | Six months in, Facebook News remains a question mark to publishers (3 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | YouTube Spars With Auditor Over Transparency of Advertising Risks (4 min read)
• Digiday | ‘This is exposing our weak points’: Amazon changes teach publishers – again – platform dependence is risky (6 min read)
• Medium | Email Is a Platform (6 min read)
• NiemanLab | Aligning the user data that websites and apps collect with what consumers expect (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Google criticised by news publishers over coronavirus ad blocking  (3 min read)
• Medium | What will a post-COVID-19 media look like? I asked my students. (4 min read)
• Reuters | U.S. Senate deal does not extend assistance to local news outlets (2 min read)
• Journalism.co.uk | What will newsrooms look like after the pandemic is over? (4 min read)

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

• The New York Times | News Media Outlets Have Been Ravaged by the Pandemic (12 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | With America at Home, the Streaming War Is Hollywood’s Ultimate Test (12 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Focus on singles and doubles’: Publishers’ revenue heads emphasize short term as coronavirus drags on (5 min read)
• Business of Fashion | At Condé Nast and Hearst, It’s About More Than the Current Crisis (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | The coronavirus crisis will eventually end, but the distributed newsroom is here to stay (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Even Google and Facebook May Face an Ad Slump (6 min read)
• The Financial Times | Advertising slump leads to cuts at digital and print media alike (3 min read)
• Digiday | A bright spot in a gloomy ad market: newsletter ad revenue is up (for some) (4 min read)

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

• The New York Times | ‘A Seismic Shock’: Jittery Companies Pull Back on Ads During Pandemic (7 min read)
• The Telegraph | Big Tech’s lobbying collides with shift in attitudes (4 min read)
• Protocol | How Hollywood is working from home to meet streaming demand (6 min read)
• The New York Times | The Virus Changed the Way We Internet (5 min read)
• Adweek | Brand Sustainability Should Be the Focus in News Ads: 4A’s (2 min read)
• Poynter | Removing paywalls on coronavirus coverage is noble. It also makes no sense. (6 min read)
• Consumer Reports | Facebook Approved Ads With Coronavirus Misinformation (10 min read)
• The Drum | ‘This may accelerate our plans’: inside the 4A’s scramble to help a wounded industry (6 min read)

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

• The New Yorker | The Fate of the News in the Age of the Coronavirus (12 min read)
• NiemanLab | Newsonomics: Tomorrow’s life-or-death decisions for newspapers are suddenly today’s, thanks to coronavirus (17 min read)
• Wired | People Read a Lot of Covid News—but It Won’t Save the Media (5 min read)
• Vanity Fair | Coronavirus Will Change the Media Business Forever (6 min read)

• The New York Times | The Medical News Site That Saw the Coronavirus Coming Months Ago (5 min read)
• WWD | Coronavirus Pressure on Media Spreads From Alt-Weeklies to Digital News Outlets, Magazines (6 min read)
• The New Yorker | The Fate of the News in the Age of the Coronavirus (12 min read)
• CNBC | News sites ask ad industry to get comfortable alongside coronavirus-related content (4 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Coronavirus Brings a Surge to News Sites (7 min read)
• Wired | Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? (20 min read)
• Business Insider | Brands can save American lives during the coronavirus crisis by running ads next to news coverage of the pandemic (3 min read)
• Digiday | Despite relaxing paywalls, publishers like Bloomberg, WSJ and The Atlantic see subscription spikes (3 min read)
• The New York Times | The Coronavirus Revives Facebook as a News Powerhouse (7 min read)
• USA Today | Gannett launches website to help local small businesses hit hard by coronavirus crisis (2 min read)
• Axios | Olympics postponement throws more than $1 billion in advertising into limbo (1 min read)
• Buzzfeed | The Coronavirus Is A Media Extinction Event (4 min read)

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

• The Verge | Facebook was marking legitimate news articles about the coronavirus as spam due to a software bug (4 min read)
• Harvard Business Review | Journalism’s Market Failure Is a Crisis for Democracy (7 min read)
• Digiday | How coronavirus will shape the future of TV (5 min read)
• Business Insider | How the coronavirus pandemic is impacting the media business, from theme park closures at Disney to production halts at Netflix (2 min read)
• Financial Times | Fake news websites still profit from Google advertising (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Studio’s Movies in Theaters Will Be Offered for In-Home Rental (6 min read)
• Financial Times | Google accused by rival of fundamental GDPR breaches (4 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers put virtual events to the test as in-person gatherings disappear (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | Top editors leave HuffPost and BuzzFeed News amid growing doubts about the future of digital news (6 min read)

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

• NBC News| Mission Impossible: Entertainment giants grapple with financial impact of virus (3 min read)
• The Daily Beast | CNN, NYT, Condé, WSJ, and Other Media Giants Implement Coronavirus Restrictions (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Can YouTube Quiet Its Conspiracy Theorists? (10 min read)
• NBC News | Barry Diller weighs in on the Hollywood streaming wars (3 min read)
• The Financial Times |  EU should regulate Facebook and Google as ‘attention utilities’ (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | Not to alarm you, but coronavirus-focused news products are spreading very quickly (6 min read)
• Gallup | In U.S., Most Oppose Micro-Targeting in Online Political Ads (6 min read)
• Wired | How to Work From Home Without Losing Your Mind (8 min read)

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

• Folio: | Publishers Sharpen Their Approach to Paywalls (6 min read)
• Digiday | The latest ads.txt fraud: the 404bot (3 min read)
• The Guardian | Users would tell Facebook their bank balance for $8.44 a month (2 min read)
• The Financial Times | Online platforms and media tackle embarrassing advert placements (5 min read)
• NiemanReports | Audio Articles are Helping News Outlets Gain Loyal Audiences (18 min read)
• Bloomberg | Women Are Promoted in Entertainment Industry, But Not to the Top (2 min read)
• Wired UK | Facebook must not be allowed to dictate how it gets regulated (5 min read)
• Ars Technica | Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs (4 min read)

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

• The Financial Times | EU rejects Facebook’s proposals for online regulation (4 min read)
• Vice | Mark Zuckerberg Is Literally Begging Europe to Regulate Facebook: ‘It Will Be Better for Everyone’ (4 min read)
• Axios | National newspapers thrive while local outlets struggle to survive (4 min read)
• Fast Company | The days of Netflix reaping the benefits of cord cutting may be over (1 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Not a clear commitment’: European publishers see modest gains from platform subscription services (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal |  Google in Talks to Pay Publishers for News (4 min read)
• The Drum | Adtech, eSports and OTT: where are marketers investing their money for the next decade? (14 min read)
• Digiday | How Condé Nast Entertainment plans to use its five new studios to develop franchises (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | Mass propaganda used to be difficult, but Facebook made it easy (8 min read)

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

• The Guardian | The New York Times’s success lays bare the media’s disastrous state (5 min read)
• Adweek | Streaming Services Are Here to Grow—More People Would Keep Watching or Add on Another (4 min read)
• Buzzfeed | These Fake Local News Sites Have Confused People For Years. We Found Out Who Created Them (9 min read)
• The Information | YouTube in Talks to Follow Amazon and Apple Into Video Subscriptions Market (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | So much for the techlash (3 min read)
• CNBC | FTC will examine prior acquisitions by Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft (3 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | The coronavirus is the first true social media “infodemic” (6 min read)
• AdExchanger | California AG Publishes Updated CCPA Regs With Far More Clarity Than The First Draft (4 min read)