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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of October 23, 2025
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.
October 23, 2025 | Curated by Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCNConnect on
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- Digiday | AI royalties for small and midsize publishers: collective licensing’s next big play (6 min read)
- The Hollywood Reporter | The (Academic) Case Against the Netflix Episode-Release Strategy (3 min read)
- The New York Times | OpenAI Unveils Web Browser Built for Artificial Intelligence (2 min read)
- Reuters | AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows (2 min read)
- NPR | Hollywood pushes OpenAI for consent (4 min read)
- Axios | Independent newspapers disappear as private investment firms take over (3 min read)
- Shelly Palmer | AdCP (Ad Context Protocol): A Real Attempt To Make Agents Buy Media (5 min read)
- NiemanLab | In Medill’s latest State of Local News report, a “festering, 20-year-old problem” looms larger than ever (9 min read)