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

• The Wall Street Journal | Ad Production Sector Rife With Transparency Issues, Study Says (4 min read)
• The Atlantic | When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism (15 min read)
• Bloomberg Gadfly | Google and Facebook Are the New Media Barons (3 min read)
• AdAge | Facebook Cracks Down on ‘Fat-Finger’ Accidental Ad Clicks (3 min read)
• Digiday | With an eye on the duopoly, German broadcasters create a unified consumer login (4 min read)
• London Review of Books | You Are the Product (42 min read)
• Freedom of the Press Foundation | Beware of the Trump administration’s coming crackdown on leaks — and journalism (3 min read)
• The New York Times Magazine | For the New Far Right, YouTube Has Become the New Talk Radio (11 min read)
• The Atlantic | A Googler’s Would-Be Manifesto Reveals Tech’s Rotten Core (9 min read)
• Recode | We’re in the early stages of a visual revolution in journalism (4 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Inside The Partisan Fight For Your News Feed (50 min read)
• Martech Today | P&G slashed its digital ad spend & nothing bad happened: 5 ways ad tech is responding (5 min read)

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

• The Washington Post | Google’s new program to track shoppers sparks a federal privacy complaint (4 min read)
• AdExchanger | Ad Blocking’s Old Guard Remains Strong, But Faces Growing Competition (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | Quarterly earnings for Google, Facebook reflect growing dominance in digital ad market (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads (4 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | As Media Companies Pivot to Video, Will They Actually Make It Work? (4 min read)
• The Membership Puzzle Project | The time is now. Three things we’re hearing from media orgs about membership (10 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Discovery’s $12 Billion Binge on Comfort-Food TV (5 min read)
• Digiday | Advertisers warm to Amazon’s increasing ad pitch (5 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘It’s digital colonialism’: how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users (6 min read)
• The Guardian | Why is Google spending record sums on lobbying Washington? (5 min read)
• Vanity Fair | Is The New York Times vs. The Washington Post vs. Trump the Last Great Newspaper War? (35 min read)

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

• Motherboard | Democratic Lawmakers Blast Trump’s FCC for ‘Anti-Consumer’ Agenda (4 min read)
• Business Insider | Google’s been running a secret test to detect bogus ads — and its findings should make the industry nervous (8 min read)
• Bloomberg | Should America’s Tech Giants Be Broken Up? (7 min read)
• The Washington Post | The Atlantic is ‘most vital when America is most fractured.’ Good thing it soars today. (4 min read)
• The Verge | Verizon admits to throttling video in apparent violation of net neutrality (2 min read)
• MediaShift | Sell Ads On Engaged Time Metrics? Publishers Still Weighing Promise And Risk (5 min read)
• The Hill | Google spends $6M in record lobbying quarter (1 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Brooklyn Trial to Reveal Inner Workings of ‘Botnet’ Hackers (4 min read)
• Search Engine Land | Google has dropped Google Instant Search (1 min read)
• Axios | The ad tech cookie that’s about to crumble (1 min read)

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

• Nieman Lab | Newsonomics: For the newspaper industry’s next feat, can it get Donald Trump to give it antitrust protection? (19 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Can the Tech Giants Be Stopped? (12 min read)
• Ad Age | Never Mind Fake News­. I’m Tired of Fake Math (5 min read)
• CNBC | Discovery CEO Zaslav: We need to disrupt ourselves to be ‘relevant on all platforms’ (2 min view)
• The Guardian | The biggest threat to journalism isn’t Donald Trump. It’s declining revenues (4 min read)
• Axios | Media vs. big tech (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Online Publishers Try Reducing Ads to Boost Revenue (5 min read)
• Don Marti | Playing for third place (2 min read)
• Benedict Evans | Content isn’t king (11 min read)

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

• The New York Times | News Outlets to Seek Bargaining Rights Against Google and Facebook (7 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Playing defense’: Allied or not, news orgs face uphill battle against the duopoly (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How Antitrust Undermines Press Freedom (3 min read)
• PubMatic | Let’s Be Clear: The Transparency Debate Is About Control (4 min read)
• McClatchy DC | Trump-Russia investigators probe Jared Kushner-run digital operation (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign (15 min read)
• Venture Beat | Study: Bots have turned Twitter into a powerful political disinformation platform (3 min read)
• Digiday | Facebook is getting ready to test paid subscriptions with publications (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | WHCA President Jeff Mason: Trump White House asked me to backstab journo-peers (3 min read)
• Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism | Pay Models in European News (9 min read)
• Digiday | ‘Views can happen by accident’: Publishers are thinking more about watch time — and YouTube (4 min read)

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

• The Washington Post | Why Europe got tough on Google but the U.S. couldn’t (4 min read)
• The Ad Contrarian | Apple Treats The Disease. Google Treats The Symptoms. (4 min read)
• Al Jazeera | Media group backs Al Jazeera amid closure calls (2 min read)
• HuffPost | Don’t Believe Those Against Net Neutrality, Title II and Privacy—Funded by the Phone, Cable and Wireless Associations: USTA, NCTA, & the CTIA (12 min read)
• Farnam Street | Rory Sutherland on The Psychology of Advertising, Complex Evolved Systems, Reading, Decision Making (2 min listen)
• Wired | Google’s Big EU Fine Isn’t Just About the Money (7 min read)
• MediaVillage | It’s Time to Tighten Up Digital POP (4 min read)
• AdExchanger | For Some Publishers, User Experience Trumps Revenue (3 min read)
• The Verge | Verizon Is Killing Tumblr’s Fight for Net Neutrality (9 min read)
• Axios | The tech giants eating the world (1 min read)
• PressGazette | Chief exec of US online publishers group backs Press Gazette Google/Facebook Duopoly campaign and says EU could tame them (2 min read)
• MarTech Today | Is retargeting dying? (5 min read)
• Ad Week | 33 Major Publishers Are Promising Advertisers a New Level of Safety and Transparency (2 min read)

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

• Publishing Insider Summit | Stopping Fake & Hate News Is Good Journalism…And Good Business (37 min view)
• Digiday | Procter & Gamble’s Marc Pritchard on getting partners to adopt industry standards: ‘We’re 40 to 50 percent there’ (2 min read)
• Bloomberg | Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook (4 min read)
• Fast Company | Susan Wojcicki Has Transformed YouTube—But She Isn’t Done Yet (24 min read)
• Digiday | The New York Times CEO on state of digital advertising: ‘Nightmarish joke’ (2 min read)
• Fox News | News Corp. CEO: The Almighty Algorithm – “fake news” and other consequences of Google, Amazon and Facebook’s relentless focus on quantity over quality (7 min read)
• Digiday | What to know about Europe’s antitrust fracas with Google (4 min read)
• The Guardian | Google and Facebook face penalties if they don’t stop online hate (9 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Said to Be Facing Record E.U. Fine by End of August (5 min read)
• Axios | Policing the power of tech giants (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Univision’s Urgent Sense of Purpose: A Newsroom and a Lifeline (9 min read)

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

• Crunchbase | Advertising Giants Leave Little Room For AdTech Startups And VCs Are Noticing (5 min read)
• Monday Note | The Coming War: Browsers Against Advertising Pollution (5 min read)
• Digiday | USA Today Network’s Kevin Gentzel: Advertisers have duopoly ‘fatigue’(5 min read)
• Poynter | Is Facebook serious about helping publishers find subscribers? Industry leaders are watching carefully (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | This Tech Bubble Is Different (15 min read)
• WWD | Vox’s Ezra Klein Explains it All (9 min read)
• The Guardian | Google and Facebook face penalties if they don’t stop online hate (9 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Facebook Building Feature to Let Users Subscribe to News Publications (4 min read)
• Poynter | What’s behind the recent media bloodbath? The dominance of Google and Facebook (4 min read)

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

• The Boston Globe | A Republican may be Internet privacy’s new champion (4 min read)
• Motherboard | The Creator of JavaScript Just Launched a Cryptocurrency to Improve Online Ads (4 min read)
• Precurs R. Blog | Alphabet-Google Big Takeaways from Trump Antitrust Chief’s Senate Answers (11 min read)
• The Intercept | Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker (4 min read)
• Vice | Ad block argument (4 min read)
• MediaPost | Fighting Duopoly, Publishers See Added Value In Programmatic Marketplaces (2 min read)
• The Verge | Apple’s new anti-tracking system will make Google and Facebook even more powerful (5 min read)
• Buzzfeed | An Ad Network That Helps Fake News Sites Earn Money Is Now Asking Users To Report Fake News (11 min read)
• Marketing Land | 4 reasons why digital context matters (6 min read)
• The Washington Post | Amazon, Kickstarter, Reddit and Mozilla are staging a net neutrality online protest (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | WSJ Ends Google Users’ Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Results (4 min read)

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

• The Washington Post | Facebook could tell us how Russia interfered in our elections. Why won’t it? (4 min read)
• Ad Age | How Advertisers Could Be Hurt if Net Neutrality Dies (4 min read)
• The Guardian | The great digital-age swindle… and the man fighting back (10 min read)
• The Information | What’s Next in the Business of News (5 min read)
• Ad Age | Opinion: Europe’s Strict New Privacy Rules Are Scary but Right (6 min read)
• Wired | Get Ready for the Next Big Privacy Backlash Against Facebook (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | Executive Editor Martin Baron delivers Oweida Lecture in Journalism Ethics at Penn State University (24 min read)
• Buzzfeed | Facebook Exec Says Technical Updates Are More Effective Than Fact Checkers To Fight Fake News (7 min read)
• The Conversation | We should levy Facebook and Google to fund journalism – here’s how (7 min read)
• MediaPost | ANA Gives Advertisers Guidance To Combat Lack Of Transparency In Programmatic (3 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | We Need More Alternatives to Facebook (12 min read)

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

• The New York Times | How Google Took Over the Classroom (25 min read)
• The New York Times | A Network Ad Wrangler Undaunted by Facebook and Google (9 min read)
• The Guardian | Facebook promised to tackle fake news. But the evidence shows it’s not working (8 min read)
• AdAge | Team of Rivals: Inside Fox, Turner and Viacom’s Strange Collaboration (12 min read)
• MarketingLand | Facebook admits its 10th measurement mistake since September (3 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | Facebook paid pubs to use Live. Here’s what happened at the Times. (8 min read)
• The New York Times | How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful (9 min read)
• Mashable | If you’re not sure why the alt-right is suddenly everywhere, this report is for you (2 min read)
• The Atlantic | The Thinning Line Between Commercial and Government Surveillance (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | As Streaming Services Amp Up, Not all TV Channels Make the Cut (6 min read)
• TechDirt | Cable Industry’s Own Survey Shows Majority Support Net Neutrality Rules (6 min read)

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

• Financial Times | Modern monopolists are redefining competition (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Is It Time to Break Up Google? (7 min read)
• The Globe and Mail | In conversation with Irwin Gotlieb, an ad buyer in a Google world (7 min read)
• WSJ| Publishers Weigh Pros and Cons of Potential Google Ad-Blocking Feature (4 min read)
• Digiday | The Guardian pulls out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News (3 min read)
• Business Insider | The evidence is piling up — Silicon Valley is being destroyed (5 min read)
• The Drum | Are we entering adtech’s era of accountability (7 min read)
• Advertising Week | With Brand Safety in Focus, Digital Advertisers Are Quickly Shifting Toward Direct Programmatic (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | The FCC just released a plan to undo its own net neutrality rules  (5 min read)
• The New York Times Magazine | Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug? (29 min read)
• Fortune | Hulu and the Fight for Real-Time TV (20 min read)