Some of the best media industry stories from around the web:

• AdExchanger | Y&R CEO David Sable Wants To Rethink Audience Targeting (4 min read)
• Digiday | WTF is going on with EU publisher copyright? (4 min read)
• Recode | More than two million people watched Twitter’s NFL stream on Thursday night (2 min read)
• Digiday | Beware of page latency: The side effects to header bidding (4 min read)
• New York Times | Adblock Plus, Created to Protect Users From Ads, Instead Opens the Door (6 min read)
• AdExchanger | Ad Blocking, Ad Reinsertion And Fixing CX: We’ve Only Just Begun (3 min read)
• Broadcasting & Cable | Advertisers Push Back on FCC Broadband Privacy Plan (3 min read)
• MediaFile | Who is Responsible for Online Advertising in 2016? (4 min read)
• Digiday | Why Facebook embraced the ad network model (4 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web: 

• Wall Street Journal | Adblock Plus is Launching an Ad Exchange (4 min read)
• Digiday | Confessions of an ad tech veteran: ‘Publishers need to audit their exchanges’ (4 min read)
• Advertising Age: At Industry Conference, Publishers Vent About Power of Social Media Companies (3 min read)
• FT | Facebook backs down over napalm girl Vietnam war photo (5 min read)
• Huffington Post | Presidential Debate Moderators Are Feeling The Heat Like Never Before (5 min read)
• Advertising Age | Pinterest President: Value of Clicks to Mobile Sites Will Go Away (9 min read)
• AdExchanger | Reacting To Apple Alarmism; VC Sours On Media Companies Posing As Ad Tech (3 min read)
• Wired | Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s head of Android, on EU regulators and security headaches (6 min read)
• Reynolds Journalism Institute | When good ads go bad (10 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web: 

• Recode | Yes, Facebook is a media company (1 min read)
• AdExchanger | What’s The Matter With RTB? AppNexus’ Chief Economist Wants To Tweak Ad Auctions (6 min read)
• USA Today | Wolff: The looming shakeout in digital media (5 min read)
• The Guardian | Why Tim Berners-Lee is no friend of Facebook (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Facebook takes aim at ad blockers (2 min read)
• Mashable | Facebook seems to be at the losing end of ad blocking fight (6 min read)
• Mediatel | Re-establishing the value exchange (3 min read)
• MediaPost | FTC Chairwoman Tells Ad Networks: Respect Consumers’ Choices (2 min read)
• The Information | Facebook’s New Plan to Expand Ad Network (5 min read)
• Project VRM | It’s People vs. Advertising, not Publishers vs. Adblockers (2 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web: 

• Mother Jones | This is What’s Missing from Journalism Right Now (11 min read)
• The Drum  | Forbes CEO on offsetting declines in print by focusing an ‘enormous’ amount of revenue on non-advertising related verticals (4 min read)
• Ad Contrarian  | Will The P&G Story Bring Down Ad Tech? Please? (2 min read)
• The Washington Post  | 98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you (9 min read)
• Mezzobit | Rise of programmatic and header bidding: Survey of ad-tech on top 100 media sites (1 min read)
• Wired | You Won’t Believe What Facebook Is Giving Away for Free Now (2 min read)
• Poynter | A few months in, The Undefeated is defining itself with scoops, original video and stories off the national news (8 min read)
• The Washington Post  | What Univision saw in what’s left of Gawker (4 min read)
• Digiday | The Guardian starts selling time-based ad campaigns (3 min read)
• Tech Dirt | Think Tank Argues That Giving Up Privacy Is Good For The Poor (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Disney and Vice, a Storybook Romance (10 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web: 

• Fortune | Facebook Makes It Clear That Advertisers Are More Important Than You Are (4 min read)
• Shoot | 4A’s Study Finds Discrimination Against Women In Ad Industry Is Prevalent (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Daily Report: Live Video Is Where the Advertising Bucks Are (1 min read)
• Campaign Live | Why is Snapchat investing in ‘old world’ media content? (3 min read)
• Medium | Bloated HTML, the best and the worse (3 min read)
• Mediapost | ‘WSJ’ Makes Changes To Paywall, Offers Guest Passes (1 min read)
• Poynter | Facebook tweaks News Feed to favor ‘personally informative’ stories (1 min read)
• Digiday | Armed with analytics, publishers are already changing their Facebook Live strategies (3 min read)
• Freedom to Tinker | Can Facebook really make ads unblockable? (5 min read)
• AdvertisingAge | Verizon Offered to Install Marketers’ Apps Directly on Subscribers’ Phones (3 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web: 

• Bloomberg | Google and Facebook Killed Free Media (4 min read)
• INMA | Financial Times wants publishers to embrace cost-per-hour ad campaigns (4 min read)
• NewCo Shift| Understanding Medium: Evan Williams On His Past, Future, and Current Obsessions (30 min read)
• AdAge | Facebook Cripples Ad Blockers on Its Site, Gives Consumers New Control Over Ads (4 min read)
• Fortune | The Founder of The Information on What Media Companies Are Doing Wrong (5 min read)
• CNBC | The ad-block challenge: Where do marketers go from here? (3 min read)
• HBO | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Journalism (19 min video)
• Monday Note | News is afflicted by its own climate change: It’s called social (8 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | P&G to Scale Back Targeted Facebook Ads (3 min read)
• MediaPost | Google Finds Hijacking, Ad Injection Remain Major Problems (2 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• Wired | Facebook Isn’t Just Good at Mobile. It’s How Mobile Works Now (6 min read)
• MediaPost | Apple Strengthens Do-Not-Track On iPhones and iPads (2 min read)
• Monday Note| Verizon: No. We Can’t Become Dumb Pipes! (5 min read)
• Financial Times | Four Days that Shook the Digital Ad World (6 min read)
• AdExchanger | No Winners In Battle Between Ad Blockers and Those Trying To Circumvent Them (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | How Vox Media’s new Storytelling Studio thinks of stories as products (3 min read)
• Ad Age | Digital Media Companies Continue Slow March Toward TV (6 min read)
• Digiday | ‘We were wasting time churning out tweets’: The Economist guide to quality over quantity (3 min read)
• AdExchanger | Walled Gardens Are Eating the World (and Developers) (2 min read)
• New York Magazine | Recode’s Kara Swisher on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media (11 min read)
• WSJ | Time Warner Buys 10% Stake in Hulu, Valuing It at $5.8 Billion (4 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• The Wall Street Journal | Some Media Companies Cool on YouTube Distribution (6 min read)
• BuzzFeed News | FTC: Most Americans Don’t Know How Much Companies Track And Sell Their Data (6 min read)
• The Washington Post | Why Verizon wants to buy an ailing Yahoo in $4.8B deal (6 min read)
• Marketing Land | Hulu has joined this list of major platforms that ignore Do Not Track requests (3 min read)
• Campaign | Guardian to scale back media coverage in cost-cutting move (2 min read)
• Politico | With Yahoo win, Verizon sidles up to Google, Facebook (3 min read)
• Ad Exchanger | GroupM Taps John Montgomery For New Global Brand Safety Role (3 min read)
• New York Magazine | The Case Against The Media. By the Media. (90 min read)
• Independent | Steve Dempsey: Advertisers should heed the good news for premium news websites (3 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• Digiday: How The Atlantic, Slate and others obsess about user experience (4 min read)
• The Guardian: Taylor Swift is taking on YouTube, and it won’t be an easy fight (5 min read)
• New York Times: How the Internet Saved Turkey’s Internet-Hating President (5 min read)
• MediaPost: Fraud Crusader Says Ad Tech Firms, Others, Continue To Profit From Selling Fraudulent Impressions (3 min read)
• Bloomberg: Facebook Omnipresence Makes Murdoch’s Journal Wary of Close Ties (4 min read)
• Fortune: Nick Denton Says Giving Up on Reader Comments Is a Big Mistake (5 min read)
• Adweek: Ads on Premium Publishers’ Sites Are 3 Times More Effective at Boosting Brand Favorability (3 min read)
• Wall Street Journal: EU Files Additional Formal Charges Against Google (4 min read)
• Washingtonian: What Really Happened at Politico (30 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• The Washington Post: Donald Trump is crashing the system. Journalists need to build a new one. (5 min read)
• Fortune: The Best Protection Against Disruption Is a Great Story, Says Disney’s CEO (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal: Online Publishers Must Diversify Traffic Sources, Says About.com CEO (2 min read)
• The Washington Post: Face it, Facebook. You’re in the news business. (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal: Senators Urge FTC To Examine Ad Fraud (3 min read)
• Ad Age: How P&G Hopes to Raise Creative Bar and Lower Costs: ‘Cut the Crap’ (4 min read)
• The New York Times: Want to Attract More Readers? Try Listening to Them (6 min read)
• Poynter: The Dallas Morning News runs front-page editorial: ‘Where to begin?’ (1 min read)
• Recode: Under Mayer deal, Mozilla could walk away and still get more than $1 billion if it doesn’t like Yahoo’s buyer (5 min read)
• MediaPost: Senate Democrats Urge FCC To Ban ‘Pay-For-Privacy’ Schemes (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal: EU Competition Regulators Prepare Additional Charges Against Google (3 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• MediaPost: Relevancy Is A Mobile Display Myth — It’s User Control That Will Stop The Blocking (3 min read)
• New York Magazine: The Good News at the Washington Post (19 min read)
• The Verge: Facebook adjusts News Feed to favor friends and family over publishers (5 min read)
• Digiday: What Axel Springer’s loss in ad-blocking suit means for UK publishers (3 min read)
• Nieman Lab: The Financial Times’ CEO on trial subscriptions, the platform age, and living in luxury (16 min read)
• Recode: Google is adding new ways to track you for ads, but it’s letting you call the shots (2 min read)
• MediaPost: In Flip-Flop, Facebook Denies Suggesting Friends Based On Location (2 min read)
• Wall Street Journal: EU Set to Issue Fresh Formal Antitrust Charges Against Google (2 min read)
• New York Times: At Cannes, the Ad Industry Confronts the Rise of Facebook (7 min read)
• Wall Street Journal: Vice, BuzzFeed Tread on Madison Avenue’s Turf (4 min read)
• Ad Age: Nearly 400 Publishers Have Applied for Medium’s Plan to Help Them Make Money (3 min read)
• Recode: Mother Jones and Gawker Media both have rich enemies who want to sue the pants off them (2 min read)

Some of the best media stories we’ve read this week:

• eMarketer: US Ad Blocking to Jump by Double Digits This Year (2 min read)
• MediaPost: Verizon Users Want to Continue Privacy Battle With Turn In Court (4 min read)
• Wall Street Journal: Facebook Signs Deals With Media Companies, Celebrities for Facebook Live (5 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review: Why we trust, and why that’s changing online (18 min read)
• Digiday: Op-ed: What publishers should do about ad blocking now (4 min read)
• Media Village: The ANA Report Considered (5 min read)
• Wall Street Journal: Advertisers Try New Tactics to Break Through to Consumers (5 min read)
• The Atlantic: The Forrest Gump of the Internet (20 min read)
• MediaShift: How Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Measure Engagement (6 min read)
• The Washington Post: Trump’s war on the media carries chilling echoes of Nixon (5 min read)
• The Drift: End of Days (3 min read)