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

• The Guardian | Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: ‘The system is failing’ (4 min read)
• Forrester | Predictions 2018: Who Will Win And Who Will Lose Across The Media Landscape (3 min read)
• Business Insider | Huge media companies like CBS and ESPN are banding together to fight Google and Facebook — but it may not be enough (5 min read)
• The Guardian | Russian hackers targeted UK media and telecoms firms, confirms spy chief (2 min read)
• Motherboard | If Facebook Actually Wants to Be Transparent, It Should Talk to Journalists (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Hey, Mark Zuckerberg: My Democracy Isn’t Your Laboratory (5 min read)
• FIPP | How subscriptions became a driver of profit at The Economist (5 min read)
• Campaign | Pendulum is swinging back to quality content, Kint says (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | Newsonomics: The New York Times’ Mark Thompson on regulating Facebook, global ambition, and when to stop the presses (forever) (27 min read)
• Press Gazette | FT editor Lionel Barber calls on ‘deeply flawed’ social media networks to ‘drop the pretense’ they are not media companies (3 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | It’s Getting Harder for Tech Companies To Deny Responsibility for Content (5 min read)
• Business Insider | The head of sales as NBCUniversal just issued a stark warning to the ad industry (2 min read)
• Gizmodo | Once Again, Google Promoted Disinformation and Propaganda After a Mass Shooting (5 min read) 
• Medium | Something is wrong on the internet (25 min read)
• Axios | Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology (2 min read)
• The Globe and Mail| Facebook under fire: It’s time for the social media giant to grow up (3 min read) 
• Financial Times | Why we need to regulate the tech platforms (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | Trump’s message of mistrust is sinking in, even in journalism’s new ‘golden age’ (5 min read) 
• Digiday | Publishers are using advertiser trust concerns to their advantage (5 min read)
• The Intercept | How Twitter secretly benefits from bots and fake accounts (4 min read)
• Recode | The big media moguls are selling out. Who wants to replace them? (2 min read)

• Digiday | Advertisers often avoid hard news, but there’s mixed data to back this up (4 min read)

• The Guardian | We must not let big tech threaten our security, freedoms and democracy (13 min read)

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

• The Washington Post | Facebook, Google and Twitter testified on Capitol Hill. Here’s what they said. (8 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | It’s Time to Bust the Online Trusts (4 min read)
• Bloomberg Businessweek | How Snapchat Has Kept Itself Free of Fake News (13 min read)
• The Verge | How Americans really feel about Facebook, Apple, and more (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Big Tech’s Rivals Pounce at Chances to Win in Washington (7 min read)
• The Washington Post | The Russia ad story isn’t just about Facebook. It’s about Google, too. (4 min read)
• Press Gazette | Guardian says money from readers has overtaken advertising as it boasts 500,000 paying supporters  (2 min read)
• Digiday | The winners and losers of the EU’s new ePrivacy law (4 min read)
• Parse.ly | Not all bounces are created equal: Replacing bounce rate with engagement rate (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Mark Warner: Tech Millionaire Who Became Tech’s Critic in Congress (8 min read)
• The Guardian | Julian Assange confirms Cambridge Analytica sought WikiLeaks’ help (4 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Barry Diller Says Tech Giants ‘Inevitably’ Will Face More Regulation (3 min view)
• Axios | Exclusive interview with Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg (37 min view)
• The Outline | Facebook wants tough questions from someone who bows to powerful people (5 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Facebook Says Its Fake News Label Helps Reduce The Spread Of A Fake Story By 80% (5 min read)
• The Financial Times | Privacy as a competitive advantage (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | Trump’s threats against the press may be toothless. But they’re far from harmless. (4 min read)
• Don Marti | Notes and links from my talk at RJI (21 min read)
• The Drum | The day after tomorrow: when ad blockers and GDPR kill all adtech and martech (14 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Future of Tech and Media: Waging a War for People’s Time (15 min read)
• The Atlantic | What Facebook Did to American Democracy (25 min read)
• NiemanLab | Everyone loves push alerts, but there are problems. Like: What if readers don’t actually open them? (6 min read)
• Wired | Memo to Facebook: How to Tell If You’re a Media Company (3 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Financial Times Finds Counterfeit Ad Space Was Offered by at Least Six Companies (3 min read)
• Publishing Executive | The Dangers of the Digital Advertising Echo Chamber & How to Get Out (4 min read)
• Digiday | ‘We’ve learned a playbook’: How The Verge used Facebook video to grow Circuit Breaker (3 min read)
• The Drum | Amazon’s dismal NFL audience shows that TV’s naysayers deserve penalties (6 min read)
• The Washington Post | Pierre Omidyar: 6 ways social media has become a direct threat to democracy (5 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Facebook’s DC Nightmare Is Just Beginning (9 min read)
• NBC News | Advertisers Getting Nervous About Their Marriage to Google, Facebook (8 min read)
• The Guardian | Ofcom chair raises prospect of regulation for Google and Facebook (3 min read)
• Digiday | As Facebook Live video dreams fade, publishers look again to Twitter (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | Is Facebook spinning out of control over Russian revelations? (11 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google, Facebook, Twitter Scramble to Hold Washington at Bay (7 min read)

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

• Buzzfeed | Rupert Murdoch Is The Media’s Unlikely Hero In The War Against Facebook And Google (13 min read)
• The Atlantic | Google and Facebook Failed Us (7 min read)
• Ad Age | Ad Skeptics Say ‘Not So Fast’ To Facebook’s Two-Second Videos (4 min read)
• Ad Week | What Programmatic Advertising Must Do to Restore Trust With Brands (2 min read)
• The Washington Post | Russians took a page from corporate America by using Facebook tool to ID and influence voters (7 min read)
• Business Insider | We’re learning more about how Russia weaponized Facebook, Twitter, and Google — and it was remarkably easy (6 min read)
• Wired | Google’s latest move means you actually have to pay for news (5 min read)
• The Membership Puzzle Project | Introducing the Membership Models in News Database for your use and contributions (4 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Welcome To The Age Of Cheap Overseas Information (16 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | ‘Spoofed’ Online Ads Irk Publishers and Marketers (4 min read)
• Reuters | The press, branded the ‘enemy’ by Trump, increasingly trusted by the public: Reuters/Ipsos poll (4 min read)

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

• Knight First Amendment Institute | Is the First Amendment Obsolete? (56 min read)
• The Ad Contrarian | Battle Of The Century (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Responds to Trump and Positions Itself as Election-Ready (6 min read)
• Variety | New York Dealmaking: Big Media Companies Buy Digital Startups in Bid to Stay Competitive (4 min read)
• The Information | James Murdoch: We’re in a ‘Silly Land’ in the Video Business (7 min read)
• Wired | Mark Zuckerberg’s Trust Problem (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook’s Ad Scandal Isn’t a ‘Fail,’ It’s a Feature (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | The mysterious group that’s picking Breitbart apart, one tweet at a time (6 min read)
• Digiday | Advertising Week Briefing: Trust takes a front-row seat (3 min read)
• CNN | Jason Kint: Tech companies wield ‘uncomfortable’ amount of power over media (31 min listen)
• Vox | Why “fake news” is an antitrust problem (15 min read)
• Digiday | How EU’s ePrivacy law could impact publishers (3 min read)

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

• CNET | Ad industry attacks Safari’s effort to protect your privacy (7 min read)
• PageFair | How the GDPR will disrupt Google and Facebook (8 min read)
• The Guardian | Apple cuts cookies – but there is more to come in the online advertising arms race (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | Are publishers making money on Facebook? “Not really,” a new report finds (2 min read)
• The Guardian | Facebook’s war on free will (24 min read)
• WWD | Media People: Hearst’s Digital Architect Troy Young on the Survival of Legacy Media (15 min read)
• PressGazette | Why the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation directive could save the journalism industry (4 min read)
• Vanity Fair | Mark Zuckerberg’s Russia Problem Is Bigger Than Facebook (3 min read)
• MediaPost | P&G Is Right — The Party’s Over For Digital Advertising (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | Now Apple needs to reinvent the digital economy (4 min read)
• Marketing Week | Mark Ritson: Google’s lack of transparency should have us all worried (10 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein In a Wild Web (17 min read)
• NiemanLab | The future of news is humans talking to machines (31 min read)

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

• The Washington Post| How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality (10 min read)
• Bloomberg BusinessWeek| Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook (4 min read)
• The Intercept | Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify (8 min read)
• The New York Times | Facebook Wins, Democracy Loses (4 min read)
• Buzzfeed | There’s Blood In The Water In Silicon Valley (9 min read)
• CBS News | Journalist from Mexico denied entry to U.S. for D.C. press event (4 min read)
• Doc Searls | Let’s get some things straight about publishing and advertising (10 min read)
• Quartz | Facebook needs to answer these questions about the Russian campaign to influence American voters (7 min read)
• Media Post | IAB Europe Launches New Push Against EU Privacy Proposal (2 min read)
• Wired | Yelp Claims Google Broke Promise to Antitrust Regulators (3 min read)
• AW360 | Trust, Safety and the Pursuit of Transparency in Digital Advertising (4 min read)
•  The Wall Street Journal | Google Offers Olive Branch to Publishers by Relaxing Policy on Subscription Sites
• Digiday | Turner’s Howard Shimmel: Facebook’s not competing with TV (30 min listen)

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

• The Washington Post | Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism. It’s time to stop them. (5 min read)

   

• Doc Searls Weblog | How the personal data extraction industry ends (4 min read)
• Digiday | German publishers are joining forces against the duopoly (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Google Issuing Refunds to Advertisers Over Fake Traffic, Plans New Safeguard (5 min read)
• MediaShift | How Will Changes in Google AMP Results Affect Your Newsroom? (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant (7 min read)
• StreetFight | Hearst’s Barrett on Talks With Facebook: Progress, but More Needs to Happen (8 min read)
• The Financial Times | Big Tech can no longer be allowed to police itself (5 min read)
• Digiday | Ad buyers blast Facebook Audience Network for placing ads on Breitbart (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Publishers Are Making More Video—Whether You Want It or Not (4 min read)
• NPR | Judge Tosses Sarah Palin’s Defamation Lawsuit Against ‘The New York Times’ (2 min read)
• Multichannel News | Illegal Streams of Mayweather-McGregor Bout Reach 2.9M Viewers (1 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Trump Takes Aim at the Press, With a Flamethrower (7 min read)
• The New Yorker | Who Owns the Internet? (17 min read)
• AdAge | ANA Pushes $50 Million Digital Media Pilot With TrustX (3 min read)
• The New York Times | How Hate Groups Forced Online Platforms to Reveal Their True Nature (7 min read)
• Mashable | Google is eating the open internet (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Univision Says Lawsuit Over Deadspin Story Intended to Scare Journalists (3 min read)
• AdWeek| NBCUniversal’s Ad Sales Queen Upended the Industry Once Before. Now She’s at It Again (14 min read)
• The New Yorker |An Appreciation of Michael Barbaro and “The Daily” (7 min read)
• The New York Times | Crowded TV Marketplace Gets Ready for Three Tech Giants (7 min read)
• The Guardian | Data-hucksters beware – online privacy is making a comeback (4 min read)
• Salon | Big Tech, the “alt-right” and the unknown future of the internet (6 min read)
• TheStreet | Everything You Know About Online News Is Probably Wrong (2 min read)

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

• Axios | Nielsen will credit companies for digital views on some platforms (1 min read)
• Digiday | CMG’s Sally Mueller on content becoming commerce (13 min listen)
• Digiday | Inside Spiegel’s 70-person fact-checking team (4 min read)
• Digiday | ‘We’re paying for the mistakes’: Publishers say brand-safety fears have unfair consequences (3 min read)
• MediaPost | ANA Endorses TrustX, Encourages Members To Use Programmatic Media-Buying Stamp Of Approval (1 min read)
• MediaPost | The Fate Of Online Trust: Which POV Do You Trust? (1 min read)
• Poynter | Here’s why 4 publishers jumped onto Facebook Watch (6 min read)
• Recode | ESPN’s new Apple TV app lets you watch four screens of live sports at the same time (2 min read)
• The Guardian | US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Down the Breitbart Hole (43 min read)
• The Ringer | How NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts Took Over the Internet (17 min read)
• Washington Post | This week should put the nail in the coffin for ‘both sides’ journalism (4 min read)