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

• Wall Street Journal | Republicans and Democrats, Unite Against Big Tech Abuses (4 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Entertainment Giants Teaming Up on Advertising Currency Initiative, Announce Plan to Unify Streaming Viewership Data (4 min read)
• Financial Times | US regulatory action on the tech sector may come too late — or not at all (4 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | China, a Pioneer in Regulating Algorithms, Turns Its Focus to Deepfakes (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Streaming Changed TV. Is TV Changing Streaming Back? (8 min read)
• Poynter | Amid soaring inflation and mass layoffs, news leaders head into 2023 with diminished confidence (4 min read)
• Digiday | Meta’s been blasted by the EU privacy watchdog for breaching GDPR — now what? (4 min read)
• Medium | Just How Social Do We Want Our Media, Really? (8 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of January 5, 2023

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

• The Financial Times | Hollywood executives brace for ‘year of turmoil’ in 2023 (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Meta’s Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under E.U. Law (5 min read)
• Digiday | Media businesses are slowly getting less white, male-dominated, stats from Condé, WSJ, NYT, others show (5 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Latest Diversity Reports From USC, SDSU Reveal Room for Improvement Behind the Camera (3 min read)
• Wired | Keep It Real or Lose Gen Z (3 min read)
• Digiday | Marketers are left head scratching over 2023 after the pure chaos that was digital advertising last year (5 min read)
• Axios | TV’s tough trajectory (3 min read)
• Digiday | WSJ, Insider, BDG among publishers revisiting pandemic lessons in business ops as potential recession looms (8 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | The TV Ratings Road Map: Where, When and How Viewers Watch in the Streaming Era (13 min read)
• WNIP | Publishers, you should start using Mastodon: 10 reasons why (8 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of December 15, 2022

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

• The Guardian | Is this the end of TV? Broadcasters prepare for online-only switch (5 min read)
• Times | Can News Be Made Into a Sustainable Business? (10 min read)
• NiemanLab | “We Need a Language That Has Been Developed, Defined, and Codified by People Who Look Like Us” (7 min read)
• Reuters | Google Ad Manager outage costs big websites ad sales (2 min read)
• MediaPost | Nearly Half Of Streaming Subscribers Regularly Jump Among Services (1 min read)
• AdExchanger | Meet Performance Max, The Blackest Black Box Of All Google Ad Products (10 min read)
• TheDrum | Black, Asian and Hispanic representation in ads declined in 2022 (2 min read)
• MediaPost | Media Now Represent A Fifth Of Americans’ Most Indispensable Brands (1 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of December 8, 2022

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

• INMA | Listeners’ sonic attention is worth fighting for (1 min read)
• Axios | Ad growth expected to slow further in 2023 (3 min read)
• The Verge | Disney’s CEO drama explained, with Julia Alexander (1 hour read)
• The New York Times | Why Losing to Meta in Court May Still Be a Win for Regulators (7 min read)
• Axios | The alternative-media industrial complex (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | Two years after launching a local news company (in an Alden market), here’s what I’ve learned (14 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | Meta’s Targeted Ad Model Faces Restrictions in Europe (6 min read)
• PressGazette | Survey suggests people don’t trust news industry because they don’t understand it (5 min read)

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

• Lion Publishers | What our independent news experts learned from auditing 75 news businesses (6 min read)
• Poynter | Contrary to concerns, news organizations are still seeing a rise in subscriptions (5 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘Culture of exclusion’ keeps women of colour from top media jobs, report reveals (4 min read)
• Techcrunch | Adtech antitrust class damages claim filed against Google in UK — seeking up to $16.3BN (4 min read)
• ArsTechica | Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | Post, the latest Twitter alternative, is betting big on micropayments for news (10 min rad)
• Reuters Institute | Changing Newsrooms 2022: media leaders embrace hybrid work despite challenges (40 min read)
• BBC | Meta fined €265m by Irish data watchdog over breach (1 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of November 17, 2022

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

• The New York Times | Google Agrees to $392 Million Privacy Settlement With 40 States (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Media Companies Are Having Their Worst Year in Three Decades (8 min read)
• PressGazette| US magazine circulations: America’s biggest titles saw circulation fall 8% year-on-year but digital growth continues (5 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘You have to fight for democracy’: Maria Ressa and her lawyer Amal Clooney on their quest for justice (8 min read)
• Journalism.co.uk | What publishers can learn from gaming (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Meta’s layoffs make it official: Facebook is ready to part ways with the news (7 min read)
• CJR | How can newsrooms improve when it comes to their social media policies? Diversify their leadership. (8 min read)
• Financial Times | UK regulator may force social media sites to reveal algorithms (5 min read)
• PressGazette | Why Canada must make rules around Duopoly publisher payments transparent (5 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of November 10, 2022

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

• Digiday | How the buy-side of the ad industry is now defining ‘premium’ content (3 min read)
• Los Angeles Times | What Twitter’s changes mean for news organizations (6 min read)
• MediaPost | Consumers’ Willingness To Share Data Depends On Personal Preference, Study Finds (2 min read)
• Adage | Diversity in U.S. Marketing Industry Increases But Black and Latinx Representation still Lag (2 min read)
• Front Office Sports | Apple Building Ad Network Ahead of MLS Deal (1 min read)
• Axios | Newspapers shudder at threat of recession (3 min read)
• The Guardian | Majority of female journalists have been target of online violence – report (2 min read)
• The Verge | The mystery of Biden’s deadlocked FCC (33 min read)
• Los Angeles | Why free streaming channels could be the future of broadcast TV news (7 min read)]

DCN’s must reads: week of November 3, 2022

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

• Axios | Scoop: CVC eyes Group Black’s bid for Bustle-owner BDG (2 min read)
• Deadline | Peacock Will Start Streaming Hallmark Programming (2 min read)
• Digiday | Bloomberg Media exerts more control over its programmatic advertising as part of ‘a philosophical shift’ (6 min read)
• Insider | We asked 14 newsrooms whether they’d pay for Twitter verification for journalists. For CNN, it’s ‘highly unlikely,’ but for Puck, it’s a resounding yes. (4 min read)
• New York Magazine | The Streaming Era Pauses for an Ad Break How Netflix — and everyone else — learned to love commercials again. (12 min read)
• PressGazette | New York Times digital subscriptions pass 10m but adspend stalls (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Disney Tries Mixing Streaming With Shopping (2 min read)
• The Washington Post | Elon Musk’s Twitter is working on paid-video feature with ‘high’ risk (6 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of October 27, 2022

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

• The New York Times | TikTok failed to stop most misleading political ads in a test run by researchers. (2 min read)
• Digiday | Why some of the largest publishers are breaking up with ad tech middlemen (5 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Why Streamers Are Getting on Board With In-Flight Entertainment (5 min read)
• Axios | Bad winter coming for U.S. media companies (3 min read)
• Digiday | The ANA’s transparency crackdown has been mired by ad tech’s intricacies (7 min read)
• The Verge | Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Spotify Wants to Get Into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in the Way (6 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | ‘Deepfakes’ of Celebrities Have Begun Appearing in Ads, With or Without Permission (6 min read)
• Moundsville: PBS Film & Magazine | The Case for Mac n’ Cheese Journalism: Americans Won’t Trust the News Unless They Get Daily Stories About Their Neighbors (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of October 20, 2022

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

• Variety | Why Wall Street Fell Out of Love With Netflix and Other Media Companies (2 min read)
• Financial Times | Disney warns France that future blockbusters could bypass cinemas (4 min read)
• Pew Research | After increasing in 2020, layoffs at large U.S. newspapers and digital news sites declined in 2021 (2 min read)
• Variety | Behind Netflix and Disney+’s Dash for Streaming Ad Cash (6 min read)
• PressGazette | Google’s latest core algorithm change hits major news publishers harder than ‘helpful content’ update (7 min read)
• Medium | Is Streaming a Good Business? (17 min read)
• Digiday | Study claims widespread collection of unconsented data (2 min read)
• Variety | Netflix Released Record-Breaking 1,024 Original TV Episodes in Q3 — More Than Five Times Any Other Service (3 min read)
• WSJ | Company Documents Show Meta’s Flagship Metaverse Falling Short (10 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of October 13, 2022

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

• The New York Times | Under New Order, Europeans Can Complain to U.S. About Data Collection (3 min read)
• Digiday |  Apple, Spotify podcast feeds pose challenges for growing subscriptions (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are Bringing It Back. (11 min read)
• Axios | New York Daily News plots local comeback (4 min read)
• CNBC | Despite inflation worries, Americans are less likely to cancel Amazon Prime, Netflix than cut spending on food (2 min read)
• CJR | The hard work of implementing the Digital Services Act has begun (3 min read)
• Soundsprofitable | Does Podcasting have an Ad Frequency Problem? (8 min read)
• MediaPost | KPMG: Metaverse Awareness Up To 56%, As Paid Streaming Love Affair Cools (4 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of October 6, 2022

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

• Wired | How Bots Corrupted Advertising (6 min read)
• Digiday | How publishers can prevent cyberattacks after Fast Company’s hack (4 min read)
• PressGazette | Secrecy, boredom and a ban on working elsewhere: Inside the Facebook News factory (8 min read)

• NBC News | Supreme Court takes up a divisive issue: Should tech companies have immunity over problematic user content? (4 min read)
• Variety | Women in Charge: CNBC’s Julia Boorstin on How Female Leadership Moves Markets and Drives Profit-Focused Innovation (3 min read)
• PressGazette | ‘No evidence’ youth not interested in current affairs but ‘lots of people avoid some of the news, some of the time’ (5 min read)
• WNIP | 5 key takeaways: WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress 2022 (4 min read)
• Financial Times | Brussels re-energised for Big Tech battles (4 min read)
• AP | Network nightly newscasts morph, adapt for the streaming age (1 min read)
• Waxy | AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability (6 min read)

DCN’s must reads: week of September 29, 2022