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

• Variety | Can Hollywood’s Biggest Media Companies Avoid Getting Crushed by Debt? (15 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers see PR behind Google’s news and search tests in response to the new EU copyright directive (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Davos tiptoes around the questions of Big Tech governance (5 min read)
• The New York Times | If Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Talk, Britain Is Waiting (5 min read)
• Ars Technica | Why Silicon Valley’s “growth at any cost” is the new “unsafe at any speed” (4 min read)
• Deadline | Media Giants Will Pause Merger Mania After CBS-Viacom, Per Wall Street Analysts: “You Need A Motivated Seller” (4 min read)
• Vanity Fair | The Ever-Increasing Cost of Streaming (4 min read)
• Axios | Users rely on traditional news amid misinformation crisis (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Condé Nast to Put All Titles Behind Paywalls by Year-End (4 min read)

• MediaPost | Get Ready For A Turbulent 2019 (3 min read)
• Digiday | After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges in Europe — and kept growing ad revenue (5 min read)
• The Nation | In the Shadow of the CMS (15 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | How an Experimental Billion-Dollar Privacy Lawsuit Could Clobber Facebook (17 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | No, tech companies shouldn’t fund journalism (7 min read)
• Digiday | You have to sell advertisers what they need, not what you want’: Q&A with Conde Nast chief revenue officer, Pamela Drucker Mann (5 min read)
• NiemanLab| Newsonomics: Let the 2019 Consolidation Games begin! First up: Alden seeks to swallow Gannett (13 min read)
• Recode | A resolution for journalists in 2019: Earn the public’s trust by showing your work (52 min listen)

• The Ad Contrarian | Why Online Ads Haven’t Built Brands (7 min read)
• Adweek | How Publishers Are Using Memberships to Earn Highly Valuable Loyal Readers (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | These are the 2019 court fights that will decide the future of net neutrality (5 min read)
• Buzzfeed | These Digital Ad Fraudsters Went To Court To Try To Get Their Earnings Back. It Didn’t Work Out Well For Them. (11 min read)
• CNBC | Apple has a message for Amazon and Google and it’s plastered on the side of a hotel at the biggest tech conference of the year (2 min read)
• The Atlantic | The Media’s Post-Advertising Future Is Also Its Past (8 min read)
• AdExchanger | Pivotal Forecasts Amazon Ad Revenue To Reach $38 Billion (2 min read)
• Digiday | ‘A daily, hourly fight’: Digital ad fraud is worse than ever (4 min read)
• CNBC | What’s next for media in 2019 as Apple, Disney, AT&T and more jump into the streaming business (8 min read)

Our picks of the must-read stories from around the web:

• The Washington Post | New media hit stumbling block, scaring away some investors (7 min read)
• Wired | Yes, Big Platforms Could Change Their Business Models (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | D.C. attorney general sues Facebook over alleged privacy violations from Cambridge Analytica scandal (4 min read)
• Digiday | ‘GDPR will ultimately be good for the industry’: Guardian CRO Hamish Nicklin on 2019 plans (5 min read)
• Buzzfeed | The Rise, Lean, And Fall Of Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg (22 min read)
• The Atlantic | What Google’s CEO Couldn’t Explain to Congress (8 min read)
• The New York Times | As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants (20 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | Jonathan Albright on the new Senate report, and the importance of Instagram to Russian disinformation (3 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | The Top Takeaways From Sundar Pichai’s Testimony (8 min view)
• The Ringer | Reed Hastings and Netflix Upended Hollywood. But Is His Model Built to Stay on Top? (9 min read)
• NiemanLab | What does membership mean for BuzzFeed News — at a company that’s already raised nearly $500 million in venture capital? (8 min read)
• The New York Times | Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret (8 min read)
• Digiday | Inside Jeffrey Katzenberg’s plan to spend up to $1b by 2025 on programming for Quibi (6 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | Digital influencers have changed advertising. They’re changing journalism, too. (6 min read)
• The New Republic | A Future With Less News (11 min read)
• Axios | U.S. firms look to India as next media battleground (5 min read)

• Buzzfeed | 8 People Are Facing Charges As A Result Of The FBI’s Biggest-Ever Ad Fraud Investigation (15 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Generally amoral’: Facebook’s 6 million advertisers will keep it afloat no matter the scandal (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Amazon, With Little Fanfare, Emerges as an Advertising Giant (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Facebook’s Zuckerberg Ducks U.K. Fake News Hearing (7 min view)
• CNN | UK lawmaker hopes to publish secret Facebook documents within a week (7 min read)
• Vanity Fair | The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg (11 min read)
• The New York Times | Can Laurene Powell Jobs Save Storytelling? (5 min read)
• Recode | Memo from a ‘Facebook nation’ to Mark Zuckerberg: You moved fast and broke our country. (1h listen)
• Digiday | BuzzFeed’s Craig Silverman: Digital advertising’s infrastructure has been weaponized (35 min listen)

• The New York times | Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis (30 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Failed to Police How Its Partners Handled User Data (4 min read)
• Axios | Digital publishing industry calls for national privacy rules (2 min read)
• Digiday | Top UK publishers have a new alliance to compete with the duopoly (5 min read)
• Recode | Voice tech like Alexa and Siri hasn’t found its true calling yet: Inside the voice assistant ‘revolution’ (17 min read)
• MediaPost | DOJ Clears Holding Companies In Commercial Practices Probe (1 min read)
• Deadline Hollywood | Disney And WarnerMedia Will Emerge As Winners In Streaming Space, Media Analyst Says (1 min read)
• Poynter | CNN and Jim Acosta lawsuit is about free speech, free press and due process (7 min read)
• 60 Minutes | The law that lets Europeans take back their data from big tech companies (13 min video)
• The American Prospect | How to Regulate Tech Platforms (9 min read

• Bloomberg | Facebook, Google Are Election Ad Winners Despite Meddling Outcry (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (5 min read)
• The Financial Times | Facebook and Google sign up to Tim Berners-Lee ‘contract’ (2 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers step up the fight against cookies gone rogue (3 min read)
• Associated Press | Zuckerberg rebuffs request to appear before UK parliament (1 min read)
• The New York Times | We Asked for Examples of Election Misinformation. You Delivered. (8 min read)
• MediaPost | Ethics Emerges As Industry Issue, Methods For Enabling It Vary (1 min read)
• AdExchanger | Inside The Facebook-Sponsored Boot Camp To Help Local Pubs Drive Subscriptions (6 min read)
• MIT Technlogy Review | Internet freedom around the world has fallen for the 8th year in a row (2 min read)

• The Guardian | UK and Canada MPs unite to demand Mark Zuckerberg answers questions (2 min read)
• Buzzfeed | This Is How We Radicalized The World (17 min read)
• The Financial Times | Big Tech’s unhealthy obsession with hyper-targeted ads (5 min read)
• AdExchanger | At ANA Masters, Marketers Take Control (4 min read)
• The Verge | Will Google’s homepage news feed repeat Facebook’s mistakes? (8 min read)
• PressGazette | New York Times boss Mark Thompson: ‘When it comes to news, Facebook still doesn’t get it’ (12 nub read)
• Buzzfeed | Twitter Just Launched A Midterms Page And It’s Already Surfacing Trolls And False, Hyperpartisan News (3 min read)
• The New York Times | On Instagram, 11,696 Examples of How Hate Thrives on Social Media(6 min read)
• Associated Press | Anger toward media spreads into local communities (5 min read)
• The Cut | The Skimm Brains 7 million people wake up to their newsletter, and their voice, every morning. (20 min read)

Our picks of the must-read stories from around the web:

• The Wall Street Journal | Advertisers Allege Facebook Failed to Disclose Key Metric Error for More Than a Year (4 min read)
• CBS News | “Far from an honest mistake”: Facebook accused of inflating ad data (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | Did Facebook’s faulty data push news publishers to make terrible decisions on video? (11 min read)
• The New York Times | New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry Into Net Neutrality Comments (5 min read)
• Axios | The next big wave of publisher traffic (2 min read)
• Digiday | Why the FBI is investigating media buying practices (4 min read)
• The New York Times | In Virginia House Race, Anonymous Attack Ads Pop Up on Facebook (4 min read)
• The Drum | Neuroscience and ‘baked in’ brand safety: how BBC Global News pitches its content arm (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Tame tech and drive innovation towards a fair inclusive society (3 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | “There’s a Shakeout Coming”: Streaming TV’s Arms Race May Make Cable Look Like a Deal (5 min read)
• AdExchanger | Bloomberg’s Bullish Plan To Make Digital Media Work (5 min read)

• The New York Times | Soldiers in Facebook’s War on Fake News Are Feeling Overrun (7 min read)
• Reuters | EU privacy chief expects first round of fines under new law by year-end (4 min read)
• Wired | Google’s Privacy Whiplash Shows Big Tech’s Inherent Contradictions (5 min read)
• Digiday | Conde Nast International’s Wolfgang Blau: ‘Europe seems to play defense’ (4 min read)
• AdAge | What Google’s data snafu means for the for $88B digital ad industry (3 min read)
• CNBC | Expect continued media consolidation, because scale matters, 21st Century Fox vice chair says (3 min read)
• Forbes | The Wall Street Journal Tops A New Index Of Most Trustworthy Media Brands (3 min read)
• Recode | A few words about Cindy Lobel (4 min read)
• AdExchanger | Fraudsters Are Masquerading As Real DSPs (5 min read)
• Variety | Listen: Turner’s Jesse Redniss on How AT&T Changes the Data Game (30 min listen)