Digital Media Brief Oct 21

Published: Oct. 21, 2016, 3:16 a.m.

In the news this week, Discovery Communications makes a $100 million bet on a digital media roll-up called Group Nine. The Atlantic gives users of ad-blockers a choice: white-list us or pay up! Were newspapers misguided by going head-first into digital-first? That’s what Jack Shafer says, citing a recent research study.