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Lachlan Murdoch
Dylan Byers February 8, 2025
Blue chip advertisers that long shunned Fox News (or at least its more crackpot-friendly time slots) are quietly coming back, leading the network to record-setting revenue. Is it the mainstreaming of Trump’s America, or an even broader cultural shift?
Shari Redstone
Dylan Byers February 6, 2025
Inside the agony and finger-pointing at CBS News, where executives and journalists are protesting Shari Redstone’s eagerness to settle Trump’s suit, countenancing their diminishing place in the firmament, and girding for the F.C.C. to extract maximum political pain.
Shari Redstone
Dylan Byers February 1, 2025
Apparently, Shari Redstone has waited too long and stands to make too much on the sale of her declining family business to get tripped up in a journalistic ethics debate or public spat with the new president. Why not just cave? These days, everybody’s doing it.
Karoline Leavitt
Dylan Byers January 30, 2025
News, notes, and observations on the superficial changes inside the Brady Room and the far more significant transformations under the hood within the D.C. media industrial complex.


Mark Thompson CNN
Dylan Byers January 25, 2025
The contracting news network is finally leveling with staff that its future won’t look anything like its past. But Mark Thompson is still focused on where and how people consume news, without offering a vision for how CNN competes in a more crowded media landscape.
Mark Thompson
Dylan Byers January 23, 2025
With a defanged and fully demoralized staff, and a mandate from Mark Thompson to drop the #Resistance posturing, could the new year be any gloomier at the most trusted name in news? Layoffs are on the way…
MSNBC
Dylan Byers January 16, 2025
Rebecca Kutler, Jeff Zucker’s onetime heir apparent at CNN, is now the big boss at MSNBC, where she’ll lead the company into the SpinCo wilderness—managing talent, decline, and anxieties along the way. And yet, she’s not only the best person for the job, but perhaps the only one who can do it.
jeff bezos
Dylan Byers January 9, 2025
Yes, we’re all grossed out by billionaires and C.E.O.s genuflecting to the incoming president, even if much of it is cynical lip-service. But the agony and angst of it all has overly simplified a much more complex challenge.


John Harris
Dylan Byers January 3, 2025
More news and notes on the traditional inter-administration employment musical chairs within the D.C. media scene.
will lewis
Dylan Byers December 27, 2024
News, notes, and H.R. updates on a series of significant fin de siècle leadership changes at Jeff Bezos’s constantly transmogrifying paper.
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