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

• The New York Times | U.S. and E.U. Complete Long-Awaited Deal on Sharing Data (4 min read)
• PressGazette | The gender consumption gap for online news and how publishers can address it (7 min read)
• Variety | Peak TV Has Peaked: From Exhausted Talent to Massive Losses, the Writers Strike Magnifies an Industry in Freefall (10 min read)
• Digiday | Newsroom unions are pushing management to negotiate AI use (4 min read)
• Sky News | Job on the Line? (11 min read)
• Digiday | ‘We felt uncomfortable with the lack of control’: How DPG Media is reducing its reliance on Google ad tech (5 min read)
• Variety | Fewer Ad Dollars Expected As Weak TV Upfront Nears End (4 min read)
• MediaVoices | Big Noises Podcast: Michelle Manafy on the media’s universal problems (42 min listen)

DCN’s must reads: week of June 29, 2023

• PressGazette | What will generative AI do to journalism? Experts and execs sound off at NewsXchange (11 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | Google Violated Its Standards in Ad Deals, Research Finds (5 min read)
• Bloomberg |  Canada Will Require Google and Meta to Pay for News Under Passed Bill (2 min read)
• Financial Times | Landmark EU digital rules face first legal challenge (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | Film and TV Profits Have Collapsed Over the Last Decade (9 min read)
• NiemanLab | The “passive news consumer” is on the rise (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Why researchers shouldn’t study The New York Times to understand U.S. news media as a whole (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | New accessibility help guide available for Washington Post website (1 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of June 22, 2023

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

• Financial Times | AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content (7 min read)
• NBC News | ‘A moment of revolution’: Schumer unveils strategy to regulate AI amid dire warnings (5 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | Marketer Trade Group Report Shows Ad Spending ‘Rife With Waste’ (4 min read)
• Gizmodo | Website Owners Say Traffic Is Plummeting After a Facebook Algorithm Change (6 min read)
• New York Times | G.O.P. Targets Researchers Who Study Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election (9 min read)
• NiemanLab | Why news subscriptions feel like a burden to young people (16 min read)
• Politco | Google forced to postpone Bard chatbot’s EU launch over privacy concerns (2 min read)
• The Entertainment Guy | 15 Thoughts On Disney’s Big Content Purge (9 min read)
• Intelligencer | AI Is a Lot of Work (35 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of June 15, 2023

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

• The Verge | EU suggests breaking up Google’s ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling (4 min read)
• Defector | Gimlet Media’s Story Was Always Going To End Like This (6 min read)
• Medium | Defining Engagement (6 min read)
• WSJ | Can Twitter’s Odd Couple Make It Work? Elon Musk and His New CEO Are About to Find Out (13 min read)
• Reuters | U.S. House united on call for Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter (2 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | How Sesame Workshop and Fred Rogers Productions Keep True to Their Mission 55 Years Later (8 min read)
• New York Times | It’s Not a Good Sign When People Who Don’t Pay for News Have So Little to Choose From (10 min read)
• Reuters Institute | Digital News Report 2023 (20 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of June 8, 2023

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

• CNBC | A.I. poses new threats to newsrooms, and they’re taking action (8 min read)
• Toolkits | Subscription law complexity highlighted by New York Times lawsuit (3 min read)
• NBC News |Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | Music markets are ‘glocalising’ — and the English-speaking world better get used to it (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Apple Is Stepping Into the Metaverse. Will Anyone Care? (7 min read)
• PressGazette | ChatGPT six months on: Insight from 12 news leaders on generative AI and journalism (20 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘Deeply personal and very authentic’: how podcasts took over the world in 20 years (15 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of June 1, 2023

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

• New York Post | News Corp CEO Robert Thomson warns AI could ‘fatally undermine’ journalism (3 min read)
• CJR | How the media is covering ChatGPT (10 min read)
• CNBC | Tech layoffs ravage the teams that fight online misinformation and hate speech (13 min read)
• Tookits | ‘A torrent of crap’: News publishers see trust as a differentiator as AI content proliferates (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | AI Leaders Are Calling for More Regulation of the Tech. Here’s What That May Mean in the US (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | Biden’s former tech adviser on what Washington is missing about AI (9 min read)
• Pluralistic | To save the news, ban surveillance ads (6 min read)
• Axios | Axios Finish Line: The future of media (3 min read)
• Baekdal | The impossible AI debate… (7 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of May 25, 2023

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

• Wired | Generative AI Podcasts Are Here. Prepare to Be Bored (9 min read)
• The Financial Times | The fall of Vice: private equity’s ill-fated bet on media’s future (14 min read)
• Vox | Do Americans really want “unbiased” news? (6 min read)
• Variety | The NFL Is Training Fans to Love Streaming (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | AI is an opportunity for creative industries, says Bertelsmann boss (3 min read)
• American Journalism Project | We asked 5,000 people across the country what they want from local news. Here’s what we learned. (12 min read)
• inews.uk | Twitter is making researchers delete data it gave them unless they pay $42,000 (4 min read)
• PressGazette | Canada news boss urges global peers to stick to their guns in battle with big tech (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of May 18, 2023

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

• Columbia Journalism Review | Journalism’s Essential Value (62 minutes)
• Digiday | Twitter’s appointment of Linda Yaccarino as CEO signals the social network’s desire to win back brands (4 minute read)
• Harvard Business Review | AI Can Be Both Accurate and Transparent (8 minute read)
• MediaPost | TV Advertising Ups And Downs: Linear Sinks 8%, CTV Rises 21% (1 minute read)
• PressGazette | BBC unveils Verify team of 60 journalists it says will be ‘transparency in action’ (4 minute read)
• The New York Times | Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy (7 minute read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Automotive Tech Billionaire Austin Russell to Acquire Majority Stake in Forbes (2 minute read)
• The Washington Post | Elon Musk’s about-face on government censorship (4 minute read)
• Variety | Behind Warner Bros. Discovery’s Secret Audience-Shifting Strategy: Schedule Switches and Simulcasts (3 minute read)

DCN’s must reads: week of May 11, 2023

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

• The Verge | Speed Trap (32 min read)
• The Washington Post | Both parties trust the Weather Channel … and that’s about it (4 min read)
• The Verge | The AI takeover of Google Search starts now (12 min read)
• Press Gazette | What news publishers need to know about FAST channels after Washington Post launch (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | Massive Podcast Networks Put Their Shows on YouTube But Nobody is Listening (7 min read)
• Toolkits | Click-to-cancel requirements appear unavoidable (3 min read)
• Insider | Silicon Valley’s Hail Mary moment (11 min read)
• Molly White | Narrative over numbers: Andreessen Horowitz’s State of Crypto report (40 min read)
• Insider | RIP Metaverse (8 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of May 4, 2023

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

• Reuters | EU proposes new copyright rules for generative AI (2 min read)
• Bloomberg | AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms (5 min read)
• The Wrap | Hollywood Unions Join WGA at Huge Solidarity Rally on Strike’s Second Day (3 min read)
• The 19th | The voices of NPR: How four women of color see their roles as hosts (17 min read)
• The New York Times | Lina Khan: We Must Regulate A.I. Here’s How. (5 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | To Binge or Not to Binge? Netflix, HBO Max Debate How to Release Your Favorite Shows (7 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Promised to Defund Climate Lies, but the Ads Keep Coming (7 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | TikTok Is Launching Ad Product for Publishers and Giving Them 50% Cut (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | Micropayments. Elon Musk thinks he’s got a “major win-win” for news publishers with…micropayments. (10 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of April 27, 2023

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

• Press Gazette | News podcast listeners among most likely to tune in weekly, Ofcom survey (4 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Why child safety bills are popping up all over the US (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Americans Get Nostalgic for the Cable TV Experience (7 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘Unprepared’ Twitter among tech firms to face tough new EU digital rules (3 min read)
• WNIP | “Generative AI opportunities outweigh threats”: INMA report lists tools publishers can use now (3 min read)
• The Lenfest Institute | I canceled 22 digital newspaper subscriptions. Here’s what I learned about digital retention strategies. (11 min read)
• Reuters | Britain to take on Big Tech with new legal powers (2 min read)
• The Guardian | BuzzFeed News’ business model turned to dust because they were always at the whim of mercurial tech titans (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of April 20, 2023

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

• Press Gazette | The ethics of using generative AI to create journalism: What we know so far (9 min read)
• Axios | Streaming is recreating TV, rather than replacing it (2 min read)
• WNIP | What does broadcast-to-podcast tech mean for audio advertising? (3 min read)
• Medium | Your audience can tell when you’re out of touch (9 min read)
• Digiday | Despite DEI promises, media companies are still mostly hiring white people (4 min read)
• Variety | Americans Spend $48 per Month on Video Streaming Services — and Half of Those Surveyed Say That’s Too Much (3 min read)
• Axios | Americans mostly believe news they hear on podcasts (2 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it (6 min read)
• Financial Times | What happens when quants go ‘Mad Men’ (4 min read)

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