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

• The New York Times | Inside Google’s Plan to Stop Apple From Getting Serious About Search (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Artists Lose First Round of Copyright Infringement Case Against AI Art Generators (6 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Three things to know about the White House’s executive order on AI (8 min read)
• Digiday | As news aggregator referral traffic slips, publishers turn their attention inward (4 min read)
• Vanity Fair | Why a Murderers’ Row of Media Barons Want to Buy The Telegraph (9 min read)
• CNN | AI Chatbots are scraping news reporting and copyrighted content, News Media Alliance says (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Tug-of-War Over N.B.A. Rights Provides Glimpse of Media’s Future (7 min read)
• NBC News | Supreme Court wades into social media wars over free speech (3 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry (7 min read)
• Variety | ‘Pause Ads’ Creep Onto Hulu, Peacock and Max as Streamers Seek New Revenue (6 min read)
• Press Gazette | Half of top newsbrands see fall in search visibility after latest Google core update (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Here’s a look at how the newly up-to-date ChatGPT reports the latest news (6 min read)
• Associated Press | States sue Meta claiming its social platforms are addictive and harm children’s mental health (1 min read)
• The New York Times | What the U.S. Has Argued in the Google Antitrust Trial (7 min read)
• The Guardian | TechScape: How the UK’s online safety bill aims to clean up the internet (7 min read)
• The Verge | Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet (45 min read)

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

• The Verge | The Google antitrust trial has been frustratingly locked down — the NYT just filed a motion to open it up  (2 min read)
• The Financial Times | ‘Netflix effect’ returns as studios license old shows to their streaming rival (3 min read)
• Forbes | In A New Era Of Deepfakes, AI Makes Real News Anchors Report Fake Stories (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | Netflix is still the only profitable streaming company: Analyst (6 min listen)
• The Wall Street Journal | How the NBA Plans to Remake TV Deals and Net Billions of Dollars for Its Stars (6 min read)
• Pew Research | How Americans View Data Privacy (1h read)
• Poltico | How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington (12 min read)
• Bloomberg | EU Plans Stricter Rules for Most Powerful Generative AI Models (5 min read)

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

• The Financial Times | How will TV’s streaming wars end? (14 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google’s Search Antitrust Case Is Also About the Future of AI (3 min read)
• Poynter | An illustrated guide to ‘pink slime’ journalism (2 min read)
• Rest of World | How AI reduces the world to stereotypes (19 min read)
• Palewire | Who blocks OpenAI, Google AI and Common Crawl? (1 min read)
• The Financial Times | Broken ‘guardrails’ for AI systems lead to push for new safety measures (6 min read)
• Press Gazette | Publishers adapt to Twitter dropping headlines from story snippets (7 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Peak TV Is Over. A Different Hollywood Is Coming. (9 min read)
• The New York Times | Fact Checkers Take Stock of Their Efforts: ‘It’s Not Getting Better’ (9 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers reckon with declining Facebook referral traffic as the platform pulls away from news (5 min read)
• Time | Global Internet Freedom Declines, Aided by AI (4 min read)
• The Verge | Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data (1 min read)
• The Guardian | China’s manipulation of media threatens global freedoms, says US report (2 min read)
• Financial Times | US Supreme Court to hear cases over free speech and social media (2 min read)
• The Atlantic | The End of Companion Television (6 min read)

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

• NiemanLab | “Flexicles,” story alert systems, and other ways AI will serve publishers, reporters, and readers (6 min read)
• The New York Times | TV Networks’ Last Best Hope: Boomers (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | A dealmaking denouement is under way for the decline of TV (4 min read)
• Axios | Hollywood writers’ contract deal includes historic AI rules (2 min read)
• The Atlantic | These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech (2 min read)
• Vox | Net neutrality is back, but it’s not what you think (8 min read)
• GQ | Inside Apple’s Plan to Change the Way We Watch Sports (22 min read)
• Next in Media | “It’s insane” Paramount’s John Halley on keeping up with the changing TV ad market (40 min listen)

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

• The New York Times | Britain Passes Sweeping New Online Safety Law (3 min read)
• Wired | Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites (10 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | People Are Streaming Pirated Movies on TikTok, One Short Clip at a Time (5 min read)
• The American Prospect | Q&A: Tim Wu on the U.S. v. Google Trial (12 min read)
• Press Gazette | Survey reveals global newsroom adoption of AI at early stage but set to increase (6 min read)
• Deadline | Traditional Media Ad Revenue Will “Stagnate Or Decline” In 2024, Major Agency Predicts, With Strikes Posing Threat To Already-Shaky TV Ratings (2 min read)
• Axios | The right newsroom jobs for AI, and the wrong ones (5 min read)
• Digiday | DCN explores the future of TRUSTX, including a partnership with tech-giant Akamai, as dealmaking (slowly) heats up (6 min read)
• The Verge | George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement (2 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of September 14, 2023

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

• The New York Times | Cable TV Is on Life Support, but a New Bundle Is Coming Alive (5 min read)
• Poynter | Newsroom AI guidelines ‘lack teeth,’ study finds (2 min read)
• Digiday | Media companies’ diversity reports reveal fewer employees are willing to disclose their demographic data (4 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | What Disney Got, and Gave Up, to Make a Deal With Spectrum; Dana Walden and Jimmy Pitaro Talk Details (5 min read)
• Axios | Nobel prize winner Maria Ressa acquitted on tax evasion charges (1 min read)
• PressGazette | Ten major trends in news consumption publishers need to be thinking about (8 min read)
• Digiday | Why Google on trial is the pivotal moment that could shape the future of online advertising (4 min read)
• Adexchanger | How Brands Can Learn To Stop Worrying About Brand Safety And Love The News (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Washington Hopes to Rein in AI Before It Becomes Another Social Media (2 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of August 31, 2023

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

• Wired | The Anticlimactic Death of the Streaming Wars (4 min read)
• Financial Times | The damning verdict of viewers on US cable TV (4 min read)
• Insider | AI is killing the grand bargain at the heart of the web. ‘We’re in a different world.’ (10 min read)
• Bloomberg | UK Needs Tough Rules on AI Using Copyrighted Data, Lawmakers Say (2 min read)
• The Verge | Can news outlets build a ‘trustworthy’ AI chatbot? (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation (14 min read)
• Bloomberg | Movies, TV Shows Available on Streaming Jumped 39% in Two Years (1 min read)
• Yahoo! Finance | In a first, the SEC says NFTs sold by an L.A.-based entertainment firm are securities. Here’s how that could ripple throughout the industry (1 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of August 24, 2023

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

• The Verge | Google and YouTube are trying to have it both ways with AI and copyright (12 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | America’s Tech Giants Rush to Comply With New Curbs in Europe (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | Media Companies Are Ready to Sell. Does Anyone Want to Buy? (5 min read)
• PressGazette | Why publishers are investing in non-news verticals to grow revenue (6 min read)
• The Financial Times | British media and creative industries quizzed over AI risks to copyright (3 min read)
• The Wrap | Hollywood’s Diversity Progress Remains Sluggish, USC Study Says (4 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause (4 min read)
• Insider | Sorry to report: Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown has been very successful in adding new subscribers (2 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of August 17, 2023

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

• AdExchanger | Streaming Profitability Is More Than Just Subscriber Growth (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | Warner Bros. Discovery Considers Adding Sports Tier to Max Service (2 min read)
• Digiday | Here is why Wall Street’s reception to the CTV narrative is cooling (3 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | News Corp. CEO Says “Negotiations Are Well Underway” With AI Companies for Content Payments (2 min read)
• Tech Policy Press | The Value of News Content to Google is Way More Than You Think (8 min read)
• The New York Times | The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco. (15 min read)
• Vox | How two pop culture Twitter accounts turned into the internet’s wire service (13 min read)
• WNIP | How the New Statesman won podcast commercial strategy of the year: Podcast of the week (30 minute listen)

DCN’s must reads: week of August 10, 2023

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

• Vulture | The Looming Catalog Crisis (11 min read)
• PressGazette | News is second most popular type of social media video – Ofcom (4 min read)
• Tech Policy Press | The Value of News Content to Google is Way More Than You Think (8 min read)
• ANA | Why the Advertising Industry Needs Standards on Spammy “Made for Advertising” Sites (6 min read)
• NiemanLab| People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives — but those can be changed (4 min read)
• Digiday | The rise of discerning publishers: Ad tech vendors face increased scrutiny (4 min read)
• Guardian | Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out (3 min read)
• USA Today | Will AI deepen distrust in news? Gannett, other media organizations want more regulations. (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of August 3, 2023