Our recommended reads from around the web:

• The Washington Post: Cable and telecom companies just lost a huge court battle on net neutrality (5 min read)
• The New York Times: Cable Industry Mobilizes Lobbying Army to Block F.C.C. Moves (6 min read)
• AdExchanger: How The ANA Rebate Controversy Could Impact Ad Tech (4 min read)
• MediaPost: Tough Broadband Privacy Proposal Draws Support From Former FTC Official (4 min read)
• The Washington Post: Donald Trump just barred Washington Post reporters from campaign events. That should bother you. (5 min read)
• Advertising Week: Snapchat Launches a Colossal Expansion of Its Advertising, Ushering in a New Era for the App (16 min read)
• Wall Street Journal: The Rise of the Anti-Ad Blockers (3 min read)
• Digiday Podcast: Forbes sales chief: Ad blocking is an ‘existential’ threat (38 min listen)
• Digital Content Next: What New York Times President and CEO Mark Thompson had to say about ad blocking (13 min read)
• Politico: The Macy’s factor (10 min read)
• The New York Times: The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It (6 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• Advertisers Alleging Kickbacks Spur Battle With Madison Ave (7 min read)
• ANA: ANA Transparency Report Released (2h read)
• TheMediaBriefing: Talking Gawker: The case for and against a gossip blog (6 min read)
• Committee to Protect Journalists: Why Trump’s insults of journalists must be taken seriously (6 min read)
• Medium: Bait and Switch: The Failure of Facebook Advertising — An OSINT Investigation (9 min read)
• CBS News: Ad blockers have media companies in a bind (3 min read)
• Vanity Fair: How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War to Crush Google Plus (15 min read)
• Mercury News: Wolverton: FCC offers hope for consumers seeking online privacy protections (4 min read)
• New York Times: NPR Journalist and Translator Killed by Taliban in Afghanistan (3 min read)
• USA Today: Status with Facebook ‘interest-based’ ads is complicated (3 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• New York Times: Facebook’s Troubling One Way Mirror (5 min read)
• The Facebook Papers, Part 3: Facebook pulls a page from the Amazon playbook (7 min read)
• The Information: The Smoking Gun in Android Antitrust Case (6 min read)
• Ars Technica: Android Instant Apps will blur the lines between apps and mobile sites (2 min read)
• Nieman Lab: Here are seven possible ways for publishers to deal with adblockers (5 min read)
• USA Today: Wolff: TV takes on ‘subprime’ digital video (4 min read)
• Politico: Alan Rusbridger warns of ‘profound and alarming’ shift in news media (2 min read)
• Redef: By Obsessing Over the Present, Big Media has Forgotten its Past and Endangered its Future (16 min read)
• Digiday: New York magazine penalizes advertisers for data-hogging ads (3 min read)
• Medium: The Simple Solution to the Online Ad Disaster (5 min read)
• Poynter: If ad tech is not sustainable, what can publishers do? (20 min read)
• Washington Post:  Now, there’s one more reason to be a journalist — you can help save journalism (5 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• Recode: The Facebook papers Part 2: The user experience revolt (5 min read)
• New York Times: Facebook’s Bias Is Built-In, and Bears Watching (6 min read)
• Business Insider: Google is preparing its big response to the ad blocking problem (but it probably won’t be positioned as coming from Google) (8 min read)
• The Information: The Smoking Gun in Android Antitrust Case (5 min read)
•  The Atlantic: Who Will Own Your Data If the Tech Bubble Bursts? (4 min read)
• Digiday: 43 percent of social media users don’t know where the stories they read originally appeared (3 min read)
• New York Times: Social Media Finds New Role as News and Entertainment Curator (5 min read)
• Ad Exchanger: Wherefore Edge Providers? Senate Subcommittee Dives Into Proposed FCC Privacy Regs (4 min read)
• Poynter: In ad-blocking wars, publishers propose a détente (4 min read)
• Ad Week: ABC Study Makes the Best Case Yet That TV Advertising Is Still Superior to Digital (4 min read)
• Wired: We Said We’d Be Transparent … WIRED’s First Big HTTPS Snag (4 min read)
• Digiday: Inside The Washington Post’s internal agency and its growing ambitions (4 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• Recode: Google Fiber is the most audacious part of the whole Alphabet (16 min read)
• Digiday: Why publishers are teaming up to explore time-based selling (3 min read)
• The Information: The Cost of Joining Snapchat’s Discover (4 min read)
• Recode: The Facebook Papers, Part 1: The great unbundling (5 min read)
• Gawker: Internet Video Views Is A 100 Percent B.S. Metric (11 min read)
• Digiday: Google said to be exploring an ‘acceptable’ ads policy (3 min read)
• Variety: Digital Ad Guru Joe Marchese Wants to Cut the Clicks (5 min read)
• New York Magazine: Why Facebook Got a Letter From the Senate (2 min read)
• MediaPost: Customers Are Not Commodities. Why Does Advertising Treat Them Like They Are? (2 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• The Guardian: Publishers ‘feeding on scraps from Facebook’, says Bloomberg Media boss (3 min read)
• Ad Age: Chuck Townsend Has an Answer for the Ad-Blocking Conundrum (5 min read)
• International Business Times: What’s Really Killing Digital Media: The Tyranny Of The Impression (11 min read)
• Mother Jones: Pop Goes the Digital Media Bubble (9 min read)
• AdExchanger: Privacy Is An Opportunity, Not A Burden (3 min read)
• Digiday: Ad tech is having a premature midlife crisis (6 min read)
• WSJ: Hulu Move Shows ‘Old’ Media’s Urgency to Pioneer a ‘New’ Cable TV (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab: Wired’s making the long and slow switch to HTTPS and it wants to help other news sites do the same (4 min read)
• Media Post: FCC Won’t Put Brakes On Broadband Privacy Proposal (2 min read)
• WSJ: This Tech Bubble Is Bursting (3 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web: 

• The Intercept: The Android Administration (12 min read)
• Poynter: Ad tech is broken. Here’s how newsrooms can help fix it (16 min)
• Ad Week: Meet 4 Influential Women in Marketing and Media Who Are Creating a Culture of Change (24 min read)
• The Stack: Sites that block adblockers seem to be suffering (6 min read)
• Digiday: Facebook changes News Feed to favor time spent, publisher diversity (2 min read)
• AdExchanger: IAB Report: Digital Advertising’s $10 Billion Growth Propelled By Mobile
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• NYTimes: Vox Media Tries Something Old on Something New (4 min read)
• Nieman Lab: The Skimm launches an iPhone calendar app for $2.99/month (1 min read)
• MediaPost: GroupM Questions Digital’s ‘Integrity,’ Estimates Ad-Blocking Averaging 22% (1 min read)
• USA Today: Wolff: Traditional media to the rescue (4 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web: 

• AdExchanger: The End Of Header Bidding? Google Opens Up Dynamic Allocation To Outside Demand (3 min read)
• The Information: Escaping the Digital Media ‘Crap Trap’ (6 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter: How Old Media Is Bankrolling the Upstarts (1 min read)
• Digiday: The Economist’s Paul Rossi on the need for balanced revenue models for media (4 min read)
• The Globe and Mail: Publishers bracing for the brave new world of Internet advertising (5 min read)
• The New York Times: Public Editor No. 5 Is Yesterday’s News (5 min read)
• American Press Institute A new understanding: What makes people trust and rely on news (72 min read)
• Rafat.org: The End of Scale (4 min read)
• The Washington Post: Yahoo’s got millions of users, but it’s still in decline. What went wrong? (7 min read)
• The New York Times: Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic (6 min read)
• Advertising Week Europe: The Death of the Wild West: Putting the Consumer First in the Ad Block Debate – VIDEO (37 min)

Our recommended reads from around the web: 

• Bloomberg: Digital Media Is a Slippery Pyramid (4 min read)
• Medium: Tech Companies Design Your Life, Here’s Why You Should Care (10 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter: How ‘Old Media’ Is Bankrolling the Upstarts (3 min read)
• Poynter: Before using third-party tools, publishers should ask themselves these questions (5 min read)
• FT Engine Room: A faster FT.com (7 min read)
• AdExchanger: App Store Discovery Is Broken, And Developers Are Looking For Alternatives (4 min read)
• Techcrunch: Europe consulting on new telecoms data privacy and cookie rules (5 min read)
• Digiday: Refinery29’s Philippe von Borries: ‘The era of broad, indiscriminate scale is over’ (3 min read)
• Medium: Shitty ads cost iPhone users $8 billion a year (4 min read)
• The Verge: The Secret Rules of the Internet (48 minute read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• Ad Age: Departing FTC Commissioner Pans Digital Ad Industry’s Privacy Program (4 min read)
• Vanity Fair: Marissa Mayer vs. “Kim Kardashian’s Ass”: What Sunk Yahoo’s Media Ambitions? (4 min read)
• Tom’s Hardware: FCC Proposes Baseline Privacy Protections Against ISP Tracking (4 min read)
• Bloomberg: How a Small Tech Site Found a New Way for Publishers to Get Paid (5 min read)
• NY Times: Drawing the Line on Gossip After the Gawker Trial (7 min read)
• WSJ: Prevention Magazine Takes Radical Step: No Print Ads (3 min read)
• Re/code: Are Young People Leaving Facebook? Not Even Close. (Chart)
• Digiday: The secret to Axel Springer’s success: A diverse digital portfolio (4 min read)
• NY Times: Facebook’s Live Videos Get Lots of Looks but No Money Yet (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab: Is Der Spiegel’s leaked Innovation Report one of the key documents of this (German) media age? (5 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• Ars Technica UK: Using Adblock Plus to block ads is legal, rules German court—for the fifth time (3 min read)
• Monday Note: Clickbait Obsession Devours Journalism  (5 min read)
• Ad Age: The IAB is Launching a Programmatic Fee Calculator (3 min read)
• HBR: Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy (17 min read)
• Recode: Beyond the Eyeball: We’re Making Some Progress on Ad Blocking (9 min read)
• WSJ: Digital Publishers Want to Put the Web on a Diet to Fight Ad Blocking (4 min read)
• OTA: FCC Chairman Takes Position on Privacy & Broadband Providers (4 min read)
• ZD Net: Microsoft plans to build ad blocker into its Microsoft Edge browser (2 min read)
• WSJ: The Rise of the Publishing Platform Specialist (3 min read)
• Medium: How We Should Be Thinking About Advertising In Bot and Messenger Apps (4 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• NiemanLab: Testing its pay-per-article model in English, Blendle launches in the United States with 20 publishers (7 min read)
• AdAge: Three Reasons Why Ad Blockers Are Good for Advertising (3 min read)
• WSJ: Moat Raises $50 Million to Help Develop Digital Ad Currency (7 min read)
• LinkedIn Pulse: Adblocking: effect, cause, resolution? (5 min read)
• The Next Web: 5 ways adblockers are changing your entire online experience (4 min read)
• The Washington Post: The Latest: Jury awards Hulk Hogan $115M in Gawker lawsuit (3 min read)
• NYTimes: The Mutual Dependence of Donald Trump and the News Media (9 min read)
• NiemanLab: Mike Ananny: It’s time to reimagine the role of a public editor, starting at The New York Times (8 min read)
• Mashable: Break the News (13 min read)
• LinkedIn Pulse: These Are the Two Original Sins of the Internet—And Now’s the Time to Fix Them (11 min read)