Our recommended reads from around the web:

• The Verge: A year ago, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler saved the internet. In this exclusive interview, he tells us what’s next (20 min read)
• Re/code: It’s Your Data: Empowering Consumers to Protect Their Privacy on Broadband Networks (4 min read)
• Knight Digital Media Center: Bell: Big tech platforms need to own responsibility as publisher (3 min read)
• The Guardian: Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by ‘ransomware’ malvertising (2 min read)
• Digiday: Confessions of a programmatic vet: ‘It’s such a mess right now.‘ (3 min read)
• Supreme Court: 8 Potential Cases That Would Impact Entertainment and Media (8 min read)
• WWD: Wired’s Scott Dadich Talks Tech and How Magazines Can Adapt to the Digital World (14 min read)
• WAN-IFRA:  Marty Baron: Loss of public trust is journalism’s greatest challenge (8 min read)
• Business Insider: Ads on news sites gobble up as much as 79% of users’ mobile data (2 min read)
• Wired: John Oliver Makes The Clearest Case Yet for iPhone Crypto (1 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• Digiday: Copyranter: The ad tech bubble is about to explode (3 min read)
• AdExchanger: Verizon Settles with The FCC On Supercookies and Finally Gets Serious About Opt-Outs (4 min read)
• Journalism.uk: 16 women paving the way in digital media and technology (5 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review: Facebook is eating the world (11 min read)
• The Verge: The Dragonslayer (20 min read)
• MediaPost: Agency Finds Most Consumers Virtually Uninterested In VR (2 min read)
• AdExchanger: In The Wild West Of Digital Advertising, Marketers Must Rein In The Anarchy (4 min read)
• Washington Post: The roots of Tim Cook’s activism lie in rural Alabama (4 min read)
• Poynter: Marketing, printing and events help Dallas Morning News owner keep revenues steady (2 min read)
• Online News Association: ONA supports Apple in fighting FBI’s ‘master key’ demands (4 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• NY Times: The Ad Blocking Wars (7 min read)
• Motherboard: How to Think About Bots (11 min read)
• The Information: Why Facebook’s Ad Spending Soared Last Year (3 min read)
• Ad Age: Marketers Are Failing to Create Trust, Value in Mobile Marketing (4 min read)
• Nieman Lab: The next step: Moving from generic analytics to editorial analytics (5 min read)
• The Guardian: As publishers lose control, are newspaper websites a dead parrot? (4 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• WSJ: Facebook’s Video Tactics are Underhanded, YouTuber Casey Neistat Says (5 min read)
• WSJ: Facebook’s Instant Articles Advertising Fixes Win Over Publishers (4 min read)
• Wolff: Print’s dead — but so is digital (4 min read)
• Boston Globe: Harvard Business Review successfully adapts to the digital age (4 min read)
• MediaPost: Broadband Providers Urge FCC To Reject Tough Privacy Rules (4 min read)
• The Verge: Quartz’s new app wants to text you the news (5 min read)
• Ad Age: With Accelerated Mobile Pages Coming This Month, Google Aims to Reinvent the Mobile Web (4 min read)
• New York Times: Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions (7 min read)
• The Atlantic: Facebook and the New Colonialism (8 min read)
• Forbes: Inside Forbes: More Numbers On Our Ad Blocking Plan — and What’s Coming Next (5 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web

• OmMalik: Nothing Is Free, Not Even Facebook Free Basics (4 min read)
• Ad Age: Facebook’s iOS Glitch Caused ComScore to Overestimate Time Spent (7 min read)
• WSJ: Viacom to Sell Snapchat Ads in Multiyear Deal (4 min read)
• Digiday: WSJ drops publisher frenemy LinkedIn’s share button (2 min read)
• Medium: Advertising Needs to Become Harder to Buy (6 min read)
• MediaPost: Native Ad Disclosure All About Trust (3 min read)
• Digiday: How The Economist plans to grow attention-based ad sales (3 min read)
• ZDNet: PGP co-founder: Ad companies are the biggest privacy problem today, not governments (5 min read(
• New York Times: New York Times Co. Announces Newsroomwide Strategy Review (4 min read)
• Digiday: Dutch publisher Voetbal is trying to convert ad-block users into subscribers (4 min read)
• Bloomberg: Wired Is Launching an Ad-Free Website to Appease Ad Blockers (3 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• Ad Age: Google’s Ad Boss on Ad Blocking, AMP Ad Viewability and Enhanced Campaigns (6 min read)
• Yahoo! Finance: Apple plans to offer subscription content through News app (3 min read)
• NY Times: Europe’s Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on U.S. Tech Giants (7 min read)
• WSJ: IAB CEO Continues to Hammer Ad Blockers (4 min read)
• The Verge: This new ad-blocker has a plan to pay publishers (4 min read)
• WSJ: Why Big Companies Keep Getting Disrupted (5 min read)
• MediaPost: FTC To Ad Tech Industry: More Transparency, User Control Over Data Necessary (2 min read)
• WSJ: FTC Commissioner Urges Ad Industry to Let Consumers Opt Out of Tracking (5 min read)
• The Star: Does democracy need newspapers? Maybe not so much (4 min read)
• The Guardian: Silicon Valley braces itself for a fall: ‘There’ll be a lot of blood’ (4 min read)
• NY Times: 1996 | ‘In Gamble, Newspapers Push Into On-Line Publishing’ (5 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• WSJ: Bogus Web Traffic Continues to Plague the Ad Business (3 min read)
• S+B: A Strategist’s Guide to Blockchain (21 min read)
• Digiday: The JavaScript diet: The Financial Times adopts a ‘culture of subtraction’ to boost page speed (3 min read)
• Buzzfeed: Apple to Disband iAd Sales Team (3 min read)
• The Guardian: BBC risks excluding viewers by prioritising online content (4 min read)
• Poynter: Ask the ethicist: Should news organizations participate in media blackouts? (4 min read)
• Monday Note: Google’s AMP Poised to Take The Lead From Facebook’s and Apple’s Walled Gardens (9 min read)
• WSJ: Why Programmatic TV is Still Stuck in First Gear (5 min read)
• MediaPost: It Feels So Good (3 min read)
• New York Times: Netflix’s Opaque Disruption Annoys Rivals on TV (5 min read)
• Dun & Bradstreet’s CEO Wants His Data to Power a World Gone Programmatic (2 min read)
• MediaPost: Fraud, Bots and the Clean Players (2 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• FT: Nielsen calls for new audience measures (3 min read)
• WSJ: Apple News App Is Off to a Rocky Start (5 min read)
• Forbes: Malvertising: Three Things You Need To Know (7 min read)
• Slate: Who Controls Your Facebook Feed (30 min read)
• Monday Note: Inside La Presse+: Decisive and Final Move to Digital (8 min read)
• Digiday: The Information’s Jessica Lessin: ‘The business model for news is broken’ (3 min read)
• Wired: ProPublica Launches the Dark Web’s First Major News Site (4 min read)
• NiemanLab: Schibsted wants to circumvent the mobile adblocking apocalypse by making better, more effective ads (6 min read)
• WGBH: The Internet’s Founding Fathers Issue a Warning (4 min listen)
• NiemanLab: All your insights are belong to us: A new Tow Center report outlines the state of automated journalism (4 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• The New Yorker: In Silicon Valley Now, It’s Almost Always Winner Takes All (7 min read)
• Fortune: Is Blocking Readers Who Use Ad Blockers The Best Strategy? (4 min read)
• Ad Age: Why Ad Tech Is the Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Advertising (4 min read)
• AdExchanger: The Consumer POV On Cross-Device Tracking: ‘No, Thanks’ (5 min read)
• Slate: Twitter Isn’t Raising the Character Limit. It’s Becoming a Walled Garden. (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab: The Year We Start to Talk About “The Business Side” (4 min read)
• AdExchanger: The Platformization Of Content: The Year Publishers Paired With Facebook, Snapchat, Google and Apple (6 min read)
• Washington Post: Meet the digital dissenters: They’re fighting for a better Internet (16 min read)
• Guardian: Ad-blocking and fraud pose big questions for online advertising (3 min read)
• Ad Age: The $24 Billion Data Business That Telcos Don’t Want to Talk About (7 min read)
• Digiday: Opinion: The big lies of ad tech (7 min read)
• Wired: This Was the Year the Media Started Doubting the Web (5 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• Nieman: How big a threat is adblocking to publishers? Here’s video of our New York City event on the subject (2 min video)
• Fortune: New Firefox App Makes Websites Load Like Lightning (2 min read)
• HuffPo: Las Vegas Review-Journal Removes Questions About Newspaper’s New Mystery Owner (3 min read)
• Ad Age: The New York Times Is Developing New Lifestyle Verticals, Including a Movies-and-TV Product (3 min read)
• Business Insider: We now know another of the big companies that pays Adblock Plus to unblock its ads (3 min read)
• WSJ: Cord-Cutting Is Accelerating (1 min read)
• Pubmatic: Ad Revenue 2015 – Visibility or Viewability: Which Drives Your Strategy (40 min video)
• WSJ: AOL On’s Video Distribution Troubles Media Partners (4 min read)
• MediaPost: DCN’s Jason Kint: ‘Remember, The Consumer Is No. 1’ (1 min read)
• MediaVillage: GroupM: Facebook, Google and the Loss of Perspective (3 min read)
• MediaPost: Brands, Agencies Review Strategies, Agree To Become The Solution To Ad Blocking (2 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• Fortune: New Firefox App Makes Websites Load Like Lightning (2 min read)
• MediaBriefing: When does aggregation cross the line into theft? (4 min read)
• Digiday: 2016 Year in Preview: Ad blocking will force the industry to put the user experience first (4 min read)
• API: Interaction on Twitter enhances journalists’ credibility (4 min read)
• AdExchanger: Guardian CEO: Why Is It So Hard To Keep Gun Ads Off Our Site? (3 min read)
• ExchangeWire: Recapturing the Lost User of Online Advertising (6 min read)
• FT: Google faces Brussels move on ‘snippet tax’ for news (4 min read)
• NYT: The Search for Local Investigative Reporting’s Future (7 min read)
• Nielsen: The Comparable Metrics Report: Q2 2015 (1 min read)
• FT: Networks battle to control best TV shows (5 min read)

Our recommended reads from around the web:

• WSJ: Outside Voices: I’d Like to Teach the World to Ad Block (4 min read)
• AdExchanger: If You’ve Got A Problem With Fraud, You’re Doing Programmatic Wrong (5 min read)
• NetNewsCheck: Dallas Morning News Will Take Third Try At Paywall in ’16 (5 min read)
• MediaPost: It’s About Time, Literally: Ad Industry Eyes Temporal Planning (3 min read)
• WSJ: James Murdoch: Video Ads Like Facebook’s ‘Not Really Earning Anybody’s Attention’ (4 min read)
• New York Times: Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job (8 min read)
• Digiday: Copyranter: Advertising is not a science. It never will be (2 min read)
• Christian Science Monitor: The ad blockers debate: What’s at stake for consumers and Web publishers (5 min read)
• WSJ: Lending Startups Look at Borrowers’ Phone Usage to Assess Creditworthiness (4 min read)
• WFA: An Advertiser’s View on Ad Blocking (4 min read)
• The Economist: The rise and fall of the unicorns (8 min read)