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

• Adweek | Google’s Onerous Balancing Act Between Privacy and Profit (4 min read)
• WSJ | Justice Department Ramps Up Google Probe, With Heavy Focus on Ad Tools (5 min read)
• Digiday | With cookies on the way out, advertisers turn to old-school measurement methods (4 min read)
• The New York Times | IBM, Marriott and Mickey Mouse Take On Tech’s Favorite Law (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | News Organizations Ask U.S. to Reconsider Data-Lockup Changes (2 min read)
• InPublishing | Paywalls: why your stop rate matters (10 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers are growing audiences by producing less content (4 min read)
• Journalism.co.uk | Seven tips for publishers to get started with TikTok (7 min read)

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

• BuzzFeed | Fraudsters Used Grindr To Spoof Ads On Roku Apps And Devices (7 min read)
• Multichannel News | Traditional TV Borrows from Streaming Frenemies (8 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Sequential liability is bullshit’: Publishers press ad tech firms to protect them from programmatic clawbacks (6 min read)
• The New Yorker | What Happens When the News Is Gone? (37 min read)
• Recode | The New York Times used to be afraid of BuzzFeed. Now it’s hired its biggest star. (5 min read)
• Harvard Business Review | When Community Becomes Your Competitive Advantage (8 min read)
• CNBC | MGM leads 2020 media acquisition targets as the entertainment world splits into haves and have-nots (8 min read)
• MarketWatch | Meeting may set stage for state, federal Google antitrust probes to merge (1 min read)

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

• The Hollywood Reporter | Big Data Comes to Hollywood: The Brewing Antitrust Battle of the Streaming Era (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | McConnell Backs Bill to Give News Outlets Leverage Over Big Tech (2 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Streaming Services Reckon with Password-Sharing “Havoc” (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Tech companies urge EU not to hold them liable for illegal content (2 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek  | Cable Lost, But Streaming May Be Bleeding Out (2 min read)
• The Drum | 34% of media and entertainment execs fear extinction without radical reinvention (1 min read)
• Bloomberg | Publishers See 2020 as the Year More Start to Get Paid for News (4 min read)
• Wired | California’s Privacy Law Goes Into Effect Today. Now What? (6 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | FTC Weighs Seeking Injunction Against Facebook Over How Its Apps Interact (5 min read)
• Digiday | Ad fraud moves to streaming video platforms (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Too much information? The new challenge for decision-makers (5 min read)
• CNBC | The decade in media: Content was king, then distributors went shopping (7 min read)
• NiemanLab | First-party data becomes media’s most important currency (3 min read)
• Digiday Podcast | Axios media reporter Sara Fischer on what 2020 holds for local news, big tech and the streaming wars (34 min listen)
• Bloomberg | Roku Built the Dominant Streaming Box. Now It’s Under Siege (6 min read)
• INMA | Australian government sides with publishers over digital platforms (5 min read)

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

• NiemanLab | This is how the 5 biggest newspaper chains could become 2 — and it all comes down to one day, June 30, 2020 (12 min read)
• NBC News | A federal privacy law is starting to crystallize — but partisanship could still dissolve it (5 min read)
• The Financial Times | Brussels asks news groups to describe data deals with Google (3 min read)
• AdExchanger | Privacy, Cookies And Personalization: Ad Tech Needs To Get Over It (4 min read)
• Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy | Creating a Thriving Legacy News Magazine through Mission, Strategy, and Experimentation (35 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | She Argued Facebook Is a Monopoly. To Her Surprise, People Listened. (6 min read)
• The Atlantic | How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? (12 min read)
• NiemanLab | Men and white people believe the news is less reliable now than it was in the past. Women and people of color think it’s gotten more reliable. (4 min read)
• 9To5Mac | Apple’s Safari privacy features are driving down prices for advertisers at the cost of accuracy (3 min read)

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

• NiemanLab | Inspired by The Daily, dozens of daily news podcasts are punching above their weight worldwide (7 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Streaming’s Data Compliance Headache: “Entertainment Companies Are Going to Be Targets” (5 min read)
• 60 Minutes | How does YouTube handle the site’s misinformation, conspiracy theories and hate? (14 minute view)
• The New York Times | Who Will Tell the Truth About the Free Press? (5 min read)
• Journalims.co.uk | ‘Audience canvas’: How to create an audience-first strategy (8 min read)
• AdAge | Ad industry groups unite behind new privacy principles (4 min read)
• The Drum | Top media trends that could shape the 2020s: Streaming wars, esports and smart speakers (6 min read)
• Intelligencer | In the 2010s, BuzzFeed Made the World a Meme (34 min read)

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

• Bloomberg Law | Facebook, Google Fund Nonprofits Shaping Federal Privacy Debate (11 min read)
• News Media Alliance | Google News Shutdown in Spain Was Not as Bad as Google Would Have You Believe (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Big Tech’s Toughest Opponent Says She’s Just Getting Started (6 min read)
• The New Statesman | How the push notification came to rival the Six O’Clock News (5 min read)
• CJR | The precarious state of local news giants (8 min read)
• The New York Times | We’re Stuck With the Tech Giants. But They’re Stuck With Each Other. (17 min read)
• The Guardian | The collapse of the information ecosystem poses profound risks for humanity (5 min read)
• Ad Age | Technologist Stephen Wolfram puts a pin in social media information bubbles (5 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | The Great Streaming Battle Is Here. No One Is Safe. (15 min read)
• Recode | 10 lessons for Disney, Apple, and all the new streaming companies trying to take down Netflix (7 min read)
• The New York Times | Powerful Coalition Pushes Back on Anti-Tech Fervor (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How Google Edged Out Rivals and Built the World’s Dominant Ad Machine: A Visual Guide (10 min read)
• The Financial Times | How top health websites are sharing sensitive data with advertisers (11 min read)
• The Correspondent | The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising (24 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers try new tacks to drum up interest in their ad platforms (5 min read)

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

• The New York Times | The Great Streaming Space-Time Warp Is Coming (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | 90 Million or Bust? Streaming TV’s Great Subscriber Race Begins (5 min read)
• MediaPost | Proposed Law Requires Platforms To Allow Opt-Outs From Personalized Content (2 min read)
• The Washington Post | Inside TikTok: A culture clash where U.S. views about censorship often were overridden by the Chinese bosses (13 min read)
• Financial Times | Journalism officially goes non-profit (5 min read)
• Hot Pod | Festivus, for the Rest of Us (17 min read)
• The New York Times | The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data? (10 min read)
• Buzzfeed | These Hugely Popular Local News Sites In The US And Canada Are Fake (8 min read)
• Nieman Lab |  Watch your language: “Data voids” on the web have opened a door to manipulators and other disinformation pushers (11 min read)

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

• The New York Times | The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads (5 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek | The Battle of the Streaming Services Is the Show That Will Never End (5 min read)
• CNBC | Facebook’s new approach to journalism is a well-timed distraction from antitrust scrutiny (6 min read)
• Axios | Chasing huge subscriber goals, streamers give it away for free (3 min read)
• Fast Company | These YouTube alternatives offer children and parents a digital safe space—but there’s a catch (14 min read)
• CNBC | AT&T, Disney and Comcast have very different plans for the streaming wars — here’s what they’re doing and why (9 min read)
• ZDNet | The failure of advertising is creating a greater digital divide (5 min read)
• New York |  What’s Left of Condé Nast Two years after Si Newhouse died (and Graydon Carter left), Anna Wintour and a new CEO map out the future they can afford. (40 min read)

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

• The Financial Times |  Facebook picks winners and losers ahead of news page launch (3 min read)
• Variety | Why Kids’ Programming Will Be a Major Battleground in the Streaming Wars (7 min read)
• The New York Times | In House Antitrust Hearing, Lawmakers Focus on Harms to Privacy (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | Newspapers back on a roll (11 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | State Attorneys General, Antitrust Experts Mull Legal Grounds for Building Facebook Case (1 min read)
• CNN | LinkedIn now has a newsroom of 65 journalists. It’s hiring more (8 min read)
• NBC News | 47 attorneys general are investigating Facebook for antitrust violations (2 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek | The One Where Apple Tried to Buy Its Way Into Hollywood (7 min read)
• ICFJ | Highlights: 2019 State of Technology in Global Newsrooms (15 min read)

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

• The Hollywood Reporter | TPG Capital Has Invested Billions in Media, Is It Paying Off? (6 min read)
• Time | Marc Benioff: We Need Journalism to Elevate Humanity (4 min read)
• The Atlantic | Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan (56 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Tech platforms are where public life is increasingly constructed, and their motivations are far from neutral (7 min read)
• Digiday | Safari’s new private browsing mode provides a new path around publisher paywalls (3 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Inside Apple’s Long, Bumpy Road to Hollywood (15 min read)
• The New York Times | AMC Theater Chain Gets Into Streaming With On-Demand Movies (4 min read)
• Axios | Media streamers wrestle with high debt loads (3 min read)
• The New York Times | The Journalist vs. the President, With Life on the Line (26 min read)
• Time | How A.G. Sulzberger Is Leading the New York Times Into the Future (22 min read)