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

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

• Axios | Signs of optimism shine through the bleak ad market (4 min read)
• AdExchanger | Why Black-Owned Publishers Like Programmatic Guaranteed (4 min read)
• New York | How Will Artificial Intelligence Change the News Business? (14 min read)
• Tedium | A Dylanesque Negotiating Strategy (5 min read)
• Vox | The AI rules that US policymakers are considering, explained (21 min read)
• The Washington Post | Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company. (7 min read)
• PressGazette | News copyright theft ‘through the roof’ as 700,000 articles taken down in six months (3 min read)
• MediaPost | U.S. Ad-Supported Subscriptions Surpass 100M (2 min read)
• Medill | Local News Can’t Be ‘Damsel in Distress’ (17 min read)

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

• CJR | AI, the media, and the lessons of the past (8 min read)
• The Verge | Google will switch on its cookie-replacing tools for Chrome developers next week (3 min read)
• WSJ | The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer (5 min read)
• Semafor | Publishers want billions, not millions, from AI (4 min read)
• Financial Times | UK to tighten rules over illegal content on internet platforms (3 min read)
• The Fix | Newsroom diversity initiatives have stalled. Here’s what Mother Jones does to fight the trend (8 min read)
• Vulture | How a Strike Over Streaming Could End Up Killing Network TV (9 min read)
• Digiday | Meta wants Threads to keep a light tone, but some publishers say the audience is ready for news (8 min read)

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

• CBC | The media industry is in turmoil, and that’s not changing anytime soon (9 min read)
• Digiday | Ad tech industry gears up to combat MFAs (6 min read)
• The New York Times | In Hollywood, the Strikes Are Just Part of the Problem (6 min read)
• Axios | Media summer apocalypse (3 min read)
• Wired | The Future of Children’s Television Isn’t Television (13 min read)
• Vox | The hottest new job is “head of AI” and nobody knows what they do (8 min read)
• Stratechery | Hollywood on Strike (16 min read)
• The New York Times | The Gatekeepers of Knowledge Don’t Want Us to See What They Know (5 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of July 13, 2023

July 13, 2023 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCNrecommended reading