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

• The Financial Times | Big Tech is America’s new ‘railroad problem’ (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Accusing the New York Times of ‘Treason,’ Trump Crosses a Line (4 min read)
• Adweek | Can This Coalition Between Agencies, Brands and Tech Giants Make Our Online World Safer? (5 min read)
• The Verge | First Amendment constraints don’t apply to private platforms, Supreme Court affirms (2 min read)
• The Financial Times | The great ‘unnewsed’ struggle to participate fully in democracy (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Under Oath: You Have No Expectation of Privacy (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How Privacy Rules Will Affect the Ad Industry (12 min read)
• Vanity Fair | What Is Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi All About, and Why Should You Care? (6 min read)
• Nautilus | WeChat Is Watching (20 min read)

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

• The New York Times | We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. (10 min read)
• Bloomberg | House Panel Slams Giant Online Platforms for Harming News Media (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | DOJ Antitrust Chief Stresses Role of Competition in Digital Economy (2 min read)
• Recode | Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet (4 min read)
• Media Nation | Federal bill would ease the way for nonprofit local news (6 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | Why Free Is Too High a Price for Facebook and Google (9 min read)
• The Drum | Cost of global ad fraud could top $30bn, says new report from Cheq (3 min read)
• Motherboard | This Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Tests Facebook’s Fake Video Policies (3 min read)

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

• Reuters | U.S. probe of Google’s online ad dominance would appease long suffering rivals, publishers (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests (3 min read)
• The Verge | Can Apple be trusted with the App Store? (8 min read)
• AdAge | Report: Ad Fraud To Hit $23 Billion, Isn’t Going Down (4 min read)
• Axios | Clock runs down for privacy legislation (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Google and Amazon Are at the Center of a Storm Brewing Over Big Tech (9 min read)
• Vox | We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg (55 min listen)
• Vice | Shady Political Ads Are Pouring In To Facebook. We Still Can’t Track Them. (10 min read)
• EFF | Research Shows Publishers Benefit Little From Tracking Ads (3 min read)
• Digiday | Financial Times’ John Ridding: Every publisher needs a subscription strategy (31 min listen)

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

• The New York Times | Running Scared: Network TV in the Streaming Age (6 min read)
• Politico | Democrats Need to Tame the Facebook Monster They Helped Create (11 min read)
• Bloomberg | Alarming Lessons From Facebook’s Push to Stop Fake News in India (6 min read)
• openDemocracy | Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations, say insiders (10 min read)
• INMA | Trump vs. New York Times: the executive editor’s perspective (12 min read)
• MediaPost | Malicious, disruptive ads account for 1 in every 100 impressions (2 min read)
• The New York Times | You’re Not Alone When You’re on Google (8 min read)
• NiemanLab | Winter may be coming for HBO’s streaming subscriptions, but it doesn’t have to for your news organization (10 min read)

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

• Digiday | How advertisers are responding to Google’s third-party cookie crackdown (4 min read)
• CNBC | Disney and The New York Times show how the media dinosaurs can stay on top (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | The Technology 202: Facebook officials argue that breaking up company won’t solve its problems (3 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Podcast episodes will now show up in Google searches. Helpful discovery mechanism or a shot in the Platform Wars? (18 min read)
• Digiday | Incognito no more: Publishers close loopholes as paywall blockers emerge (4 min read)
• Vanity Fair | A Brave New Era At The Upfronts As Streaming Uproots The Tv Business (5 min read)
• Vox | The Hulu/Disney/Comcast divorce, explained (6 min read)
• CBS News | How TikTok overtook Facebook and Instagram to become the most downloaded app on planet (3 min read)
• Vanity Fair | A Brave New Era At The Upfronts As Streaming Uproots The Tv Business (5 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | In News Industry, a Stark Divide Between Haves and Have-Nots (14 min read)
• Digiday | ‘It’s an arms race’: Publishers prepare for an anti-tracking-dominant future (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Europe Is Reining In Tech Giants. But Some Say It’s Going Too Far. (8 min read)
• Vox | Amazon wants to pay the New York Times and BuzzFeed to expand so it can reach more shoppers outside the US (3 min read)
• Adweek | The Office, Friends and Grey’s Anatomy Were Netflix’s Most Streamed Shows Last Year (5 min read)
• Wired | We Launched a Paywall. It Worked! Mostly. (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Trump Is Confused About Social Media. He’s Not Alone. (5 min read)
• LinkedIn | Humans Don’t Hyperscale. Sorry, Silicon Valley (6 min read)
• The New York Times | It’s Time to Break Up Facebook (30 min read)

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

• NiemanLab | Game of Phones: Podcasts and podcast apps are now treating each other like wary rivals, protecting their turf (10 min read)
• Digiday | In pivoting to paid, publishers run into tech headaches (4 min read)
• Street Fight | How Rising Public Concern Around Facebook Privacy Impacts Everyone’s Bottom Line (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | Warren Buffett Sees Most Newspapers as ‘Toast’ After Ad Decline (2 min read)
• The Verge | Facebook’s new chief lawyer helped write the Patriot Act (2 min read)
• The Financial Times | EU official urges Trump to adopt tough data privacy rules (4 min read)
• Digiday | Note To Self’s Manoush Zomorodi: Podcasting needs to experiment with new revenue models (3 min read)
• Boing Boing | The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly (5 min read)

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

• Digiday | ‘Basically playing favorites’: Apple News+ gets off to a rocky start for some publishers (4 min read)
• The Intercept | Think tanks funded by Silicon Valley are working on Capitol Hill to overturn California’s landmark online privacy law (7 min read)
• NBC | Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show (13 min read)
• NiemanLab | Courting future business models: Are public media and scrappy startups the next trend for mergers? (4 min read)
• The New York Times | As Netflix Contends With More Rivals, Hulu Stands Out (6 min read)
• Axios | The giant ad tech bubble may soon burst (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | What will journalism do with 5G’s speed and capacity? Here are some ideas, from The New York Times and elsewhere (9 min read)
• Wired | 15 Months of Fresh Hell at Facebook (1 hr read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Lawmakers Look to Even Playing Field Between News Media, Tech Titans (4 min read)
• Financial Times | Mark Zuckerberg’s call for more tech rules fails to impress (3 min read)
• The Atlantic | A New Deal for News (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (18 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | International Streamers Investing Millions to Take on Netflix Overseas (7 min read)
• NiemanLab | The Guardian’s nifty old-article trick is a reminder of how news organizations can use metadata to limit misinformation (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Mark Zuckerberg’s Call to Regulate Facebook, Explained (6 min read)
• Vanity Fair | “Are We at a Party or a Wake?”: Journalists Fear Apple News Is a Trojan Horse (9 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Does Google meet its users’ expectations around consumer privacy? This news industry research says no (4 min read)
• Digiday | Conde Nast CRO Pamela Drucker Mann: Not all brands are worth paying for (35 min listen)

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

• The New York Timex | Europe Adopts Tough New Online Copyright Rules Over Tech Industry Protests (6 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Apple News Plus is a fine way to read magazines, but a disappointment to anyone wishing for a real boost for the news business (17 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Bundles always dilute the brand’: Publishers grapple with Apple’s new subscription service (7 min read)
• The Washington Post | Apple is trying to be the future of news. Again. (5 min read)
• Financial Times | The social networks are publishers, not postmen (4 min read)
• Podnews | The end of open: BBC blocks its podcasts on Google (5 min read)
• BuzzFeed | This Giant Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users’ Batteries And Data By Running Hidden Video Ads In Android Apps (12 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Russia wants to cut itself off from the global internet. Here’s what that really means. (9 min read)
• MediaPost | Marketing Today: DCN’s Jason Kint Discusses Facebook-Google Duopoly (34 min listen)

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

• Bloomberg | Facebook Grew Too Big to Care About Privacy (4 min read)
• Digiday | ‘It’s the human cost’: Buyers shrug at YouTube’s latest brand crisis (4 min read)
• Axios | Media plays tech watchdog while regulations stall (1 min read)
• AdExchanger | Consent Fraud: A Simmering Problem That Could Scald The Ecosystem (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | Everybody Makes Podcasts. Can Anyone Make Them Profitable? (4 min read)
• Fast Company | You’re being used to steal $50 billion in digital advertising (3 min read)
• The Verge | New FTC task force will take on tech monopolies (3 min read)
• The New York Times | The journalist Maria Ressa is facing both criminal charges and social media threats. (5 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Hard to back out’: Publishers grow frustrated by the lack of revenue from Apple News (5 min read)

• The New York Times | Maria Ressa, Philippine Journalist Critical of Rodrigo Duterte, Is Arrested (4 min read)

• Ad Age | Publishers cry foul at Apple’s terms in new sub service (4 min read)
• Nieman Lab | A major British government review proposes some light regulation of Google and Facebook (and perhaps new limits on the BBC) (19 min read)

• The Australian Business Review | Google’s one-sided plan is bad audio news for all of us (4 min read)

• New York Magazine | Can Subscriptions Save All Media Companies, or Just the New York Times? (7 min read)
• Wired | Journalism Isn’t Dying. It’s Returning to Its Roots (7 min read)
• LinkedIn | Taking advantage of data, without taking advantage of people (4 min read)
• Quartz | The decline of high-quality journalism is a market failure, says an official UK report (4 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | News media needs to convince readers to open their wallets. Consolidation has not helped. (9 min read)

• Nieman Lab | Here’s where your new readers are going to come from in 2019 (12 min read)