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

• The Financial Times | Music labels wary as Apple tries to bundle subscriptions (3 min read)
• The Atlantic | Is Anyone Going to Get Rich off of Email Newsletters? (17 min read)
• The Financial Times | EU antitrust chief signals further clampdown on US tech (3 min read)
• AdAge | Facebook agrees to pay advertisers $40 million over inflated video stats (2 min read)
• Digiday | As the third-party cookie crumbles, publishers scramble for alternatives (5 min read)
• Financial Times | EU antitrust chief signals further clampdown on US tech (3 min read)
• Adweek | When Two of the Biggest Names in Ad Tech Merge, What Comes Next? (3 min read)
• AdExchanger | These Companies Have Big Complaints About Big Tech – And Regulators Are Listening (5 min read)

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

• NBC News | Apple’s iPhone iOS 13 upgrade is privacy battle against rival tech giants Facebook, Google (4 min read)
• Politico | Google refuses to pay publishers in France (3 min read)
• The Guardian | Is big tech’s move to fund local news a cynical ploy? (5 min read)
• The New York Times | The Growing Threat to Journalism Around the World (17 min read)
• Vice | Here’s How Google Sends Advertising Dollars to Fake News Sites (3 min read)
• The New Yorker | How TikTok Holds Our Attention (18 min read)
• AdAge | In pursuit of truth: why marketers must act now to sustain trusted news (4 min read)
• The New York Times | This Article Is Spying on You (6 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Google, Facebook Cozy Up to Publishers as Regulators Circle (5 min read)
• CBC | Facebook advertisers can write their own headlines for shared news stories (5 min read)
• Washingtonian | Big Tech Is About to Spend a Ton of Money to Fight These People (18 min read)
• The New York Times | There Is No Tech Backlash (8 min read)
• Fast Company | Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads, and they have $100M to do it (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products (11 min read)
• WNIP | “Multi-million spike in pageviews”: The company behind TikTok is now shaking up news aggregation (8 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Nonprofit news outlets aren’t relying as heavily on foundations — but journalism philanthropy continues to grow (5 min read)

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

• The New York Times | How Apple’s Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls (10 min read)
• The Washington Post | 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google (4 min read)
• The Information | Internal Facebook Memo Reveals Guidelines for Showcasing News (4 min read)
• Ad Contrarian | A Conspiracy Of Silence (3 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Don’t sit on the fence’: UK regulator reiterates GDPR warning to ad tech companies (4 min read)
• AdExchanger | 4 Reasons Why News Media Will Thrive In The Wake Of Privacy Regulation (6 min read)
• RJI | There’s a reader revenue revolution happening. Will legacy news miss it — again? (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | Margrethe Vestager, Silicon Valley’s Worst Enemy, Returns With Even More Power (4 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Google Warns Against Blocking ‘Cookies’ Entirely, Triggering Criticism (3 min read)
• Recode | YouTube’s CEO says it’s “more important than ever” to let people upload anything they want (12 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Free Podcasts Are Good for Me But Bad for Business (6 min read)
• AdWeek | Streaming Services’ Secret Weapon for Keeping Subscribers: Kids Programs (5 min read)
• Freedom to Tinker | Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection (8 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Newsonomics: The perils — and promises — of New Gannett (15 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Disney Enlists Superfans as It Prepares to Face Off Against Netflix (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | How Spain Became a Case Study for the Global Streaming Wars (10 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content (4 min read)
• Adweek | How Chatbots and Voice Assistants Will Be Affected by Data Privacy Laws (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | Tighten up that paywall! (And some other lessons from a study of 500 newspaper publishers) (5 min read)
• Wired | THREE YEARS OF MISERY INSIDE GOOGLE, THE HAPPIEST COMPANY IN TECH (60 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | EU Nears Decisions in Facebook Privacy Cases (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Who works best in a revenue development role? Here’s what these local news organizations have found (7 min read)
• Adweek | Hearst Magazines Will Target You in Print Based on What You Read Online (2 min read)
• Campaign | ICO tech chief warns reform of real-time bidding is ‘in the balance’ (7 min read)

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

• Bloomberg Businessweek | The Streaming Video-on-Demand War Is Going to Get Bloody (9 min read)
• AdExchanger | RTB RIP? The Writing Could Be On The Wall For Real-Time Bidding In Europe (5 min read)
• FIPP | Taking advantage of opportunities in growth markets (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Why The New York Times is covering newspaper closures as a national story (and how local outlets can collaborate) (17 min read)
• AdExchanger | RTB RIP? The Writing Could Be On The Wall For Real-Time Bidding In Europe (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Why The New York Times is covering newspaper closures as a national story (and how local outlets can collaborate) (17 min read)
• The New York Times | A Paradox at the Heart of the Newspaper Crisis (5 min read)
• TechCrunch | Don’t miss this epic Twitter fight between the IAB’s CEO and actual publishers (7 min read)

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

• Business Insider | Facebook just had an absolutely wild rollercoaster of a week. Here’s everything that happened. (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | Facebook’s Like Button Makes Websites Liable, Top EU Court Rules (2 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Value is a proxy’: Publishers are soliciting feedback from readers with one-question surveys (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab | The L.A. Times’ disappointing digital numbers show the game’s not just about drawing in subscribers — it’s about keeping them (12 min read)
• Buzzfeed News | There’s An Underground Economy Selling Links From The New York Times, BBC, CNN, And Other Big News Sites (5 min read)
• Baekdal / Plus | Publishers need to think about link-jacking too (16 min read)
• Bloomberg Law | Moran Tees Up Data Privacy Bill As Senate Effort Splinters (2 min read)
• What’s New in Publishing | Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30. This is what happens next. (2 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Apple’s podcast categories are on a brief vacation — and a reminder of how thin the industry’s infrastructure can be (3 min read)

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

• NBC News | Facebook’s FTC settlement points toward a future for privacy regulation (2 min read)
• Insider | UBS reveals the combined company that could challenge Disney and Netflix in the ‘content arms race’ (2 min read)
• Politico | Who should keep an eye on Silicon Valley? (7 min read)
• AdAge | Google closes ‘incognito’ loophole, leaving publishers to rethink paywalls (4 min read)
• Poynter | How a GateHouse-Gannett merger would work (4 min read)
• The Guardian | To fix the problem of deepfakes we must treat the cause, not the symptoms (5 min read)
• AdWeek | As Traditional TV Evolves, Television Rating Systems Remain the Same (8 min read)
• Medium Times Open | Introducing the News Provenance Project (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Google’s Tool to Tame Election Influence Has Flaws (8 min read)

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

• Fortune | ‘We’re Not Like Facebook.’ Tech Giants Will Squirm in Capitol Hill’s Hot Seat (3 min read)
• Harvard Business School | Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers? (5 min read)
• REDEF | The Streaming Wars: Its Models, Surprises, and Remaining Opportunities (40 min read)
• Buzzfeed | At VidCon’s 10-Year Anniversary, Influencers, Fans, And Brands All Seem Ready To Leave YouTube Behind (6 min read)
• The Guardian | The Netflix cash machine needs the kind of hits that money can’t buy (8 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Apple might be getting into the podcast-making business. Is its reign as the industry’s benevolent overlord coming to an end? (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | YouTube’s Trampled Foes Plot Antitrust Revenge (13 min read)
• 9to5 Google | Google introduces redesigned News tab for desktop Search (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | FTC Approves Roughly $5 Billion Facebook Settlement (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 Race to Rule Streaming TV (11 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Regulators Eye the Auctions That Decide Which Web Ads You See (5 min read)
• Recode | Why you have to keep logging in to read news on your phone (11 min read)
• Digiday | Guide to European regulators’ war with the tech platforms (5 min read)
• Free Press | Questions Remain as New Jersey Gov. Murphy Approves Funding for Groundbreaking Local-News Initiative (4 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Six months into 2019, what new do we know about the state of podcasting? (20 min read)
• Shorenstein Center | A Landscape Study of Local News Models Across America (47 min read)
• What’s New in Publishing | 5 global social media trends, and how they impact publishers (6 min read)
• Digiday | In Germany, questions hang on the impact of Facebook’s latest news initiative (4 min read)

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

• Nieman Lab | Publishers will soon no longer be able to detect when you’re in Chrome’s incognito mode, weakening paywalls everywhere (4 min read)
• Adweek | New US Legislation Would Require Internet Giants to Disclose the Value of User Data (3 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Siphoning off the crap’: Agencies prioritize buying premium content directly on YouTube (6 min read)
• Bloomberg | Ex-Disney CEO Eisner Sees Big-League Sports Fleeing Broadcast TV (2 min read)
• Adweek | New US Legislation Would Require Internet Giants to Disclose the Value of User Data (4 min read)
• Deadline | Netflix’s Ted Sarandos Weighs In On Streaming Wars, Agency Production, Big Tech Breakups, M&A Outlook (6 min read)
• The New Yorker | The Newsstands of the Future Will Have No Newspapers (7 min read)