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Dylan Byers

A veteran media reporter covering the business of entertainment, technology, and news media. Dylan previously worked at NBC News, CNN, and Politico and is now a senior correspondent at Puck.

THE LATEST ARTICLES
NEWSLETTERS
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers • January 21, 2026
Bari’s Prison of Her Own Design
After a month of contentious delays, 60 Minutes finally aired its piece on the notorious El Salvador prison CECOT. The “hostage standoff,” as one person put it, ended in an uneasy truce that could have been reached a month ago—and without exposing the distrust and division at Bari Weiss’s CBS News.
Mathias Doepfner
Dylan Byers • January 16, 2026
The Politico Succession Games Begin…
An era at Politico has been ending for the last decade—at least since the departures of Mike and Jim, then Jake and Anna, and, of course, the sale to Axel Springer. But with John Harris ascending to the chairmanship, again, it’s finally Axel’s baby. And Mathias Döpfner may be looking outside the mothership for Harris’s successor.
Tony Dokoupil
Dylan Byers • January 14, 2026
Tony and Bari on the Rocks
The sponcon set dressing at ‘Evening News’ provoked predictable outcry at the House of Bari. But are brand partners in TV news just an inevitability at this point?
Ben Smith, Justin Smith Semaphor
Dylan Byers • January 9, 2026
Semafornication
Ben and Justin’s recent fundraise at an 8x trailing revenue multiple, which follows David Ellison’s extravagant purchase of The Free Press, suggests we’ve entered a new era of digital media valuations. Unless we’ve just reentered the old one. Anyway, is Punchbowl next in line?
Tony Dokoupil
Dylan Byers • January 7, 2026
The Tony Accords
Tony Dokoupil’s disastrous debut as anchor of CBS Evening News highlights the uncomfortable truth about Bari Weiss’s tenure: While her politics take center stage, it’s her inexperience that’s her real liability.
Jim Steyer
Dylan Byers • January 2, 2026
Common Sense & Sensibility
A candid chat with Common Sense Media founder Jim Steyer on what lies in the hearts of Silicon Valley’s biggest bigwigs and what the A.I. bros are doing to your children. Plus, thoughts on Sundar, Zuck, and his brother Tom’s California gubernatorial bid.
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers • December 26, 2025
The Weiss Flag
It’s tempting to view Bari Weiss’s first big blunder—pulling a 60 Minutes segment critical of the administration’s deportation efforts—as purely political, which it may have been. But it may have been the product of something more mundane: Bari doesn’t know how to lead a newsroom.
Journalists
Dylan Byers • December 19, 2025
The 2025 Media State of the Union
The inherent tension of the journalist-as-brand model, the continued erosion of institutional authority, the potential for an A.I. newsroom: Industry leaders weighed in on all this and more at a panel this week to unveil the results of our latest Puck–Orchestra survey.
Justin Smith ben smith
Dylan Byers • December 17, 2025
The Gulf of Semafor
As Semafor expands further into the Gulf, it’s becoming clear that Justin Smith and Ben Smith’s media baby is looking a lot more like the former than the latter.
Jim Lanzone Yahoo
Dylan Byers • December 12, 2025
The Lanzone That Time Forgot
Don’t waste your tears on Yahoo, the Internet 1.0 relic that collapsed into Verizon and then the warm embrace of private equity. C.E.O. Jim Lanzone explains how the Apollo-owned company is poised to make the most of its post-search distribution, and why niche is the new scale.
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