- Pew: Millennials No Less Trusting (or Distrusting) of News Sources (3 min read)
- TechCrunch: Google Photos Reminder: Smile, It’s Free — You’re The Product! (5 min read)
- Nieman: The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers has gotten even a little scarier (3 min read)
- Reuters: Vladimir Putin’s censorship agenda targets online giants (5 min read)
- Digiday: 5 ways Time Inc. is trying to make paywalls work (3 min read)
- Business Insider: $25 billion in media money just went up for grabs — and nobody can agree on why (6 min read)
- Guardian: Rusbridger’s farewell illustrates the huge changes to the media in 20 years (4 min read)
- Ad Age: 10 Things You Need to Know Now About Programmatic Buying (4 min read)
- AdExchanger: Please Stop Calling It ‘Currency’ (3 min read)
- WashPost: Steve Case: Get ready, the Internet is about to change again. Here’s how. (6 min read)
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DCN’s Recommended Reading: Week of June 4, 2015
DCN’s Recommended Reading: Week of May 21, 2015
- Washington Post: How the battle for the future of the web is shaped by economics (5 min read)
- Digiday: Kraft: Digital advertising has a serious data quality problem (20 min video)
- Folio: TheStreet Experiments With A Freemium Model For Its $50-Million Subscription Service (2 min read)
- MediaPost: It’s Not TV, It’s VAB: Trade Bureau Drops Cable, Television Too (2 min read)
- WSJ: Belgian Watchdog Raps Facebook for Treating Personal Data ‘With Contempt’ (4 min read)
- AdWeek: With Facebook’s Instant Articles, Publishers Contemplate a Social-First World (4 min read)
- Ad Age: Behind All Good Ad-Tech Is Data — and Verizon, AOL Have Lots of It (4 min read)
- WSJ: With Facebook’s Instant Articles, Publishers May Find 70 Cents Is Better Than a Dollar (4 min read)
- Jeff Jarvis: I, for one, welcome our new newsstand (9 min read)
- AdExchanger: Fraud And Data Ruptures Could Spark a Consumer Revolt (5 min read)
DCN’s Recommended Reading: Week of May 14, 2015
- AJR: Ad Blocking Poses a Growing Challenge to Media Companies (5 min read)
- The New Yorker: Tomorrow’s Advance Man (1h read)
- Politico: N.Y. Times accelerates digital-first effort (2 min read)
- eMarketer: Marketers Share Data Externally, Whether or Not They Want To (2 min read)
- Microsoft: The Facebook “It’s Not Our Fault” Study (5 min read)
- AdWeek: Marketers React to Mobile Viewability Criteria, as Challenges Loom (3 min read)
- NYT: For Verizon and AOL, Mobile Is a Magic Word (7 min read)
- TheWorldPost: Facebook Said Its Algorithms Do Help Form Echo Chambers. And the Tech Press Missed It. (7 min read)
- Vox: Cable news is in trouble, and it’s more about the news than the cable (4 min read)
- CNET: Feds to cable industry: Embrace broadband competition, or else (6 min read)
DCN’s Recommended Reading: Week of May 7, 2015
- WSJ: Vox CEO Says Quality Will Trump ‘Clickbait’ (5 mins)
- Mashable: I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight on Periscope and saw the future (6 mins)
- WSJ: Facebook Offers to Let Publishers Keep Revenue From Certain Ads (3 mins)
- Medium: The beta version of a new business model for news (5 mins)
- 614 Group: Viewability: State of Operations Analysis and Vendor Study (3 mins)
- AdExchanger: Publisher Redesigns Can Knock Viewability Out Of The Park (3 mins)
- AdExchanger: The New York Times Optimistic About Viewability As Digital Ad Revs Rise 11% (2 mins)
- AdExchanger: Chartbeat launches engagement tools (4 mins)
DCN’s Recommended Reading: Week of April 30, 2015
- AdAge: Apple Watch Creates Wrist-y Business for Publishers, Advertisers (5 min read)
- The Atlantic: Facebook Is Eating the Internet (5 min read)
- The Guardian: Google admits mistakes with news outlets as it announces new partnership (3 min read)
- Re/Code: Blocking Comcast Is a Start. But if We Want Better Broadband, We Need Much More. (2 min read)
- MediaPost: ANA Advises Advertisers to Make ‘Measurably Viewable’ New Digital Ad Currency Standard (1 min read)
- Digiday: Hearst’s Troy Young: The modern publisher needs a platform (4 min read; 27 minute audio)
- MediaPost: ANA Calls Agency Financial Relations ‘Disturbing,’ Releases Findings to Back It Up (3 min read)
- Re/Code: Money Can’t Buy Everything, Comcast Learns as Deal Implodes (4 min read)
- TechCrunch: Cablevision Becomes First Pay TV Provider to Resell Hulu’s Service (3 min read)
DCN’s Recommended Reading: Week of April 23, 2015
- AdWeek: Facebook Tweaks Cause Concern Among Marketers, but Not Necessarily Panic (4 min read)
- AdAge: As Marketers Rush to Programmatic, Consumer-Privacy Rules Still Apply (4 min read)
- PressThink: “It’s not that we control NewsFeed, you control NewsFeed…” Facebook: please stop with this. (5 min read)
- Economist: Google Mobilegeddon (2 min read)
- George Brock: Andy Mitchell and Facebook’s weird state of denial about news (4 min read)
- New York Times: Comcast’s Track Record in Past Deals May Be Hitch for Merger With Time Warner Cable (4 min read)
- WSJ: Comcast Strives to Save Merger With Time Warner Cable (5 min read)
- BBC: AdBlock Plus defeats German publishers in court (3 min read)
- The Atlantic: The Eternal Return of BuzzFeed (21 min read)
- AdExchanger: How Can Programmatic Inspire Audiences? (3 min read)
DCN’s Recommended Reading: Week of April 9, 2015
- Nieman: The Economist’s Tom Standage on digital strategy and the limits of a model based on advertising (19 min read)
- MondayNote: Jumping In bed with Facebook: Smart or desperate? (7 min read)
- Medium: Micropayments for news articles are a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea (6 min read)
- WSJ: Facebook Privacy Controls Face Scrutiny in Europe (5 min read)
- Digiday: Why viewability and programmatic often don’t mix (2 min read)
- WSJ: Is the Online Ad Industry Cleaning Up Its Act? (3 min read)
- Digiday: Ad blocking is every publisher’s problem now (3 min read)
- Nieman: By building partnerships with other newspapers, The Washington Post is opening up revenue opportunities (5 min read)
DCN’s Recommended Reading: Week of April 2, 2015
- Guardian: Facebook ‘tracks all visitors, breaching EU law’ (7 min read)
- WSJ: Google Avoided FTC Probe but Others Loom (1 min read)
- Fusion: How Facebook could kill the news brand (4 min read)
- Seth Godin: Direct marketing (and the other kind) (5 min read)
- WSJ CMO: Wooing Advertisers Gets Even Harder For Mid-Sized Web Publishers (3 min read)
- Digiday: Why A+E Networks is bullish on Vessel (3 min read)
- MediaPost: FTC Defends Decision Not To Prosecute Google (2 min read)
- Digiday: WTF is cookie stuffing? (3 min read)
DCN’s Recommended Reading: Week of March 26, 2015
- TechCrunch: Media Tech And Venture Capital (5 min read)
- Poynter: How Vox Media gets readers to share on Facebook (3 min read)
- INMA: Think all news media companies have the same value proposition? Think again (4 min read)
- The Baffler: Purple Reign – The unmaking of Yahoo (43 min read)
- The Guardian: Guardian appoints Katharine Viner as editor-in-chief (4 min read)
- NPR News: Robot Reporters: Software Turns Raw Data Into Sports, Financial Reports (3 minute listen)
- Digiday: One year in: What The Guardian’s content studio has learned (3 min read)
DCN’s Recommended Reading: Week of March 19, 2015
- Jay Rosen’s Press Think: Full Stack Credibility (7 min read)
- New York Times: Gigaom’s challenges: poor leadership, spending beyond means, inattention to long term problems (7 min Read)
- New York Times: Biggest Advertisers Are Sending Their Dollars to Digital (2 min read)
- Washington Post: Why some are terrified by the idea of a Google truth machine (5 min read)
- Ad Age: New-Media Powers Say They’ll Be Profitable Soon. Don’t Ask About That Facebook Plan (3 min read)
- Reynolds Journalism Institute: In the new news ecosystem, getting paid means: personalizing, bundling, and wholesale-retail pricing (16 min read)
- PBS MediaShift: Journalism and Social Media: It’s a Love-Hate Affair (5 min read)
DCN’s Recommended Reading: Week of March 12, 2015
- AdAge: Another Round of Web Redesigns Brought to You by ‘Viewability’ (4 min read)
- CJR: Can Tony Haile save journalism by changing the metric? (16 min read)
- WSJ: The Most Powerful Player in Media You’ve Never Heard Of (6 min read)
- AdAge: Former Mediacom CEO Alleges Widespread U.S. Agency ‘Kickbacks’ (3 min read)
- Fusion: How an advertising company put a ‘marijuana cookie’ on your computer to get weed legalized (8 min read)
- LinkedIn: The New New in Digital Advertising (10 min read)
- Digiday: What worries European publishers most (2 min read)
- WSJ: Trying On the Apple Watch: Natural Feel, Fewer Distractions (3 min read)
DCN’s Recommended Reading: Week of March 5, 2015
- Guardian: Nobody cares about their online privacy… until it’s gone (4 min read)
- WSJ: Facebook Policies Taken to Task in Report for Data-Privacy Issues (4 min read)
- Variety: Why the FCC’s Net Neutrality Vote Matters to Hollywood (5 min read)
- LATimes: FCC vote could be game changer for Internet privacy (6 min read)
- Guardian: Financial Times to change way it charges for online content (5 min read)
- ZDNet: ‘Trust is the new currency’: Can the mobile industry win back users with privacy promises? (4 min read)
- WSJ: Is Facebook Friend or Foe for Telecom Operators? (6 min read)
- Re/Code: Comcast-Time Warner Deal Critics Ramp Up Opposition (3 min read)