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

• CNN | After meeting with North Korean dictator, Trump calls press America’s ‘biggest enemy’ (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Gives Lawmakers Follow-Up Answers, but Not Much Is New (3 min read)
• Digiday | Google is using Facebook fatigue to woo publishers (4 min read)
• The Verge | Newsweek and the race to fill Google with suicide news (10 min read)
• The New York Times | After AT&T-Time Warner Approval, Focus Shifts to Comcast and Disney (5 min read)
• Digiday | Seven news organizations protest Facebook’s issue ads policy (5 min read)
• New York Magazine | Inside the Binge Factory (40 min read)
• NiemanLab | How can we restore trust in news? Here are 9 takeaways from Knight-supported research (8 min read)
• AdExchanger | How The California Consumer Privacy Act Stacks Up Against GDPR (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | The Quest of Laurene Powell Jobs (35 min read)

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

• select/all | How to Succeed in Advertising (and Transform the Internet) (16 min read)
• Poynter | How three very different wealthy newspaper owners got three very different results (6 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Revenge of the desktop: These are the most important announcements Apple made for news publishers today (13 min read)
• Citylab | The Hidden Costs of Losing Your City’s Newspaper (6 min read)
• Axios | How media companies lost the advertising business (3 min read)
• NiemanReports | The End of the Ad World as We Knew It (10 min read)
• AdExchanger | Navigating Facebook’s Pivot Away From News (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | Apple Ups Privacy Controls in Growing Spat With Facebook (3 min read)
• Recode | Facebook has failed to build a business for publishers. Now it’s trying again with news programming. (2 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | Charges of Google’s ‘Illegal’ Search Get Prime-Time TV Treatment (2 min read)
• AdAge | Tensions flare between Google, publishers as GDPR looms (3 min read)
• CNBC | The EU’s bizarre questioning format allowed Mark Zuckerberg to dodge a lot of hard questions (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says (1 min read)
• Bloomberg | The Hard Truth at Newspapers Across America: Hedge Funds Are in Charge (4 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers try to use ad annoyance as a lure to subscribers (3 min read)
• The New York Times | U.K. vs. U.S.: How Much of Your Personal Data Can You Get? (9 min read)
• AdWeek | Why Does the Internet Suck? (10 min read)
• Motherboard | How the Music Industry Messed Up Legal Streaming the First Time Around (13 min read)

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

• Medium | Field guide to tag hunting: The hidden world of Internet data collection (14 min read)
• Digiday | The extremist approach to GDPR: Some US publishers consider blocking European visitors (3 min read)
• The New York Times | New Privacy Rules Could Make This Woman One of Tech’s Most Important Regulators (7 min read)
• Deadline | News Corp. Calls For Algorithm Review Board To Monitor For Potential Abuse (4 min read)
• Digiday | Facebook’s big threat isn’t Cambridge Analytica, it’s advertisers questioning ROI (5 min read)
• Poynter | Adapting to digital isn’t just about learning new things. It’s about deciding what to let go. (5 min read)
• Business Insider | Cisco said it was pulling ‘all online ads’ from YouTube because the site doesn’t meet its brand safety standards — but removed the blog post hours later (3 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | The platform patrons: How Facebook and Google became two of the biggest funders of journalism in the world (22 min read)
• Medium | Facebook vs. Democracy. A conversation with Francis Fukuyama (25 min listen)

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

• The Drum | NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino: ‘We are not in the grade your own homework business’ (6 min read)
• Axios | The Google Octopus (2 min read)
• Om | The Paywall Quandary: How many subscriptions does one really need? (3 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers are wrestling with Facebook’s desire to own Facebook-funded Watch shows (6 min read)
• Thinknum | Apple hiring activity shows a clear mission to get deeper into editorial publishing (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | Terrorists Are Still Recruiting on Facebook, Despite Zuckerberg’s Reassurances (6 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | Campbell Brown on Facebook’s plans to decide what news is trustworthy (7 min read)
• Poynter | The case for reimagining news as a finite product (5 min read)
• The Hill | After Facebook turn in hot seat, eyes turn toward Google (3 min read)

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

• Wired | Are Google and Facebook Undermining Europe’s Privacy Rules? (5 min read)
• Reuters | Publishers rebuke Google’s interpretation of EU privacy law (3 min read)
• The Atlantic | Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand Journalism (4 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says (3 min read)
• AdAge | Publishing trade groups criticize Google over GDPR policy (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | YouTube’s Plan to Clean Up the Mess That Made It Rich (13 min read)
• The Drum | Publishers hit out at Google’s ‘imposing’ GPDR policies (3 min read)
• European Data Protection Supervisor | ‘Accept and continue’: billions are clocking into digital sweat factories without realising it (5 min read)
• Digiday | Driving value from subscriptions, publishers involve readers in the process (3 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | The audience engagement industry struggles with measuring success (9 min read)
• Digiday | ‘We don’t need to be in a crowded space’: Confessions of a former NewFronts presenter (3 min read)

   

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

• The New Republic | Google Has a Facebook Problem (5 min read)
• Wired | Facebook Is Steering Users Away From Privacy Protections (5 min read)
• Reuters | Facebook’s hidden data haul troubles German cartel regulator (3 min read)
• Reporters Without Borders | RSF Index 2018: US falls as Canada rises (4 min read)
• Digiday | ‘We want publishers to think the unthinkable’: How Axel Springer is reducing its reliance on Google ad tech (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google (6 min read)
• Digiday | Once focused on scale, Hearst is cutting back on aggregation and viral fluff (4 min read)
• The New York Times | European Regulators Ask if Facebook Is Taking Too Much Data (8 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Should you design for addiction or for loyalty? (6 min read)

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

• Nieman Lab | The New York Times has signed up a lot of subscribers. Here’s how it plans to keep them (12 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook’s current status with advertisers? It’s complicated  (8 min read)
• Poynter | The Washington Post won a Pulitzer for fighting “fake news” with facts   (6 min read)
• Digiday | Ads.txt has gained adoption, but 19 percent of advertisers still haven’t heard of it (2 min read)
• Techcrunch | A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes  (9 min read)
• The Guardian | The Guardian view on Facebook’s business: a danger to democracy | Editorial
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• Digiday | The GDPR is coming and will change Facebook ad targeting (5 min read)
• Monday Note | Mark Zuckerberg’s long game: the next billion (6 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Apple, having bought Texture, is reportedly working on its own subscription news service (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook takes the punches while rest of Silicon Valley ducks (7 min read)
• Wired | Facebook is steering users away from privacy protections (5 min read)
• Digiday | Under questioning, Zuckerberg doesn’t help digital advertising’s creepy reputation (4 min read)

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

• Digiday | Under questioning, Zuckerberg doesn’t help digital advertising’s creepy reputation (4 min read)
• CJR | The Facebook Armageddon (16 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Jason Kint: Here are 5 ways Facebook violates consumer expectations to maximize its profits (4 min read)
• Business Insider | Mark Zuckerberg just renounced a core piece of Silicon Valley wisdom — and it could come back to bite Facebook (2 min read)
• Recode | Full transcript: Financial Times CEO John Ridding on Recode Media (34 min read)
• Axios | The GOP split on handling Big Tech vs. Big Media (3 min read)
• CNBC | Mark Zuckerberg will win by keeping the focus away from Facebook’s business model (4 min read)
• ProMarket | What Makes Tech Platforms So Powerful? (13 min read)
• Digiday | UK publishers are banding together to get clarity on GroupM’s GDPR policy (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Facebook’s Data Crackdown Has Two Winners: Facebook and Google (4 min read)
• TechCrunch | Sen. Harris puts Zuckerberg between a rock and a hard place for not disclosing data misuse (6 min read)

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

• Variety | Facebook Under Fire: How Privacy Crisis Could Change Big Data Forever (13 min read)
• Marketing Week | Mark Ritson: This is a critical point in marketers’ relationship with data privacy (12 min read)
• Medium | The rationalization of publishing (6 min read)
• AdWeek | Cambridge Analytica and the Repercussions for GDPR (4 min read)
• The New York Times | To Trump, It’s the ‘Amazon Washington Post.’ To Its Editor, That’s Baloney. (6 min read)
• Monmouth University | ‘Fake News’ Threat to Media; Editorial Decisions, Outside Actors at Fault (10 min read)
• The New York Times | Don’t Fix Facebook. Replace It. (4 min read)
• Digiday | ‘It’s dangerous to chase the shiny thing’: Q&A with Neil Vogel, CEO of Dotdash (3 min read)
• MediaPost | Advertising Marketplace TRUSTX Raises $2.2M (1 min read)
• Nieman Lab | What The Guardian’s Mobile Innovation Lab has learned after two years of experimenting with better news delivery on phones (3 min read)

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

• Bloomberg Businessweek | How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet (18 min read)
• NBC News | Apple CEO Tim Cook slams Facebook: Privacy ‘is a human right, it’s a civil liberty’ (4 min read)
• AdExchanger | Zenith: More Money Goes To Ad Tech Than To Actual Media (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Facebook and Google Face Emboldened Antagonists: Big Advertisers (4 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different. (9 min read)
• The Financial Times | Facebook and Google: platforms or publishers? (48 min listen)
• Nieman Lab | Recirculate! Vox Media’s new structure for story packages gives readers context (and helps them stick around) (5 min read)
• Axios | Wild West of digital marketing finally gets reined in (3 min read)
• Poynter | Why paying attention to the homepage will pay off (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Newsonomics: Will Facebook’s troubles finally cure publishers of platformitis? (9 min read)
• Wired | Children’s YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism (15 min read)

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

• The New York Times | How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions (16 min read)
• Digiday | ‘The end of the Wild West’: Facebook-Cambridge Analytica revelations cast shadow on online ad practices (4 min read)
• Wired | Facebook Owes You More Than This (7 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine (8 min read)
• Bloomberg | How Facebook Made Its Cambridge Analytica Data Crisis Even Worse (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | FTC opens investigation into Facebook after Cambridge Analytica scrapes millions of users’ personal information (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Google Makes $300 Million Commitment to Supporting News (3 min read)
• Digiday | Agent for change: The FT’s commercial chief Jon Slade is optimistic about publishing’s future (9 min read)
• The Guardian | Extremism pays. That’s why Silicon Valley isn’t shutting it down (4 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | YouTube wants the news audience, but not the responsibility (7 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Turn of the tide’: Industry execs strike a more hopeful note at Advertising Week Europe (4 min read)