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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
Bill Ackman responded to the B.I. pieces by essentially placing the media company, which is owned by Axel Springer, at the center of his next activist campaign.
Dylan Byers • January 11, 2024
A Season of Ackman’s Life
News and notes on the media holy war of our time: Bill Ackman’s pressure campaign to persuade Business Insider’s investors and executives to disavow a report detailing improper attributions in his wife’s academic work.
will lewis
Dylan Byers • January 6, 2024
Post Modernism Theories
Does Will Lewis, the Brit who just took over The Washington Post, have the hardest job in media? One week in and Alex MacCallum is off to CNN, and it turns out that his company’s traffic has dipped by more than 50 percent in the past few years.
CNN C.E.O. Mark Thompson has been in extensive talks with Alex MacCallum, the well-regarded digital product guru who served with him for eight years at the Times.
Dylan Byers • January 3, 2024
When Mark Met Alex
The newish CNN C.E.O. has his eye on Alex MacCallum, the Washington Post C.R.O. and his former Times disciple, to help him enact his drastic digital transformation effort.
Mark Thompson
Dylan Byers • December 28, 2023
Zaz’s Whale, Zucker’s Chase & The British Guys
As the year ends, a talmudic reading of the four most consequential plotlines bewitching the media industry as it enters 2024.
Dylan Byers • December 23, 2023
Can Zaz & Shari Go the Distance?
News and notes on the topics everyone is fulminating over as the holidays set in: Zazmount possibilities, Will Lewis’s forthcoming tenure at The Washington Post, and early grumblings from CNN on the Thompson era.
A combination of WBD and Paramount, even with a sale of various cable assets, would offer Zaz a true gem in many ways.
Dylan Byers • December 21, 2023
Zazmount Global & WaPo Gridlock
News and notes on the biggest stories roiling the industry: the Zaz-Shari deal possibilities and Will Lewis’s arrival at the union-torn, money-losing Washington Post.
James Bennet, the undeniably brilliant former New York Times Opinion editor, was ousted from the paper in June 2020 after greenlighting Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton’s op-ed calling for military intervention to quell the civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd.
Dylan Byers • December 16, 2023
The Best of the Times, The Worst of the Times
News and notes on James Bennet’s biblically long screed against the Gray Lady, A.G., illiberalism, and more.
Most media executives see an obvious ceiling to Tucker’s ambitions, with Beck, Megyn, and O’Reilly providing ample evidence of the limits to going it alone in the subscription-based creator economy.
Dylan Byers • December 13, 2023
The Tucker Rule
TCN, Tucker’s new $9-a-month streaming service, may portend the limits of the direct-to-consumer media economy—and suggest whether there is, indeed, life after cable stardom.
Chris Licht emerged at the event under the banner of his own company, Licht Media.
Dylan Byers • December 9, 2023
Licht of Arabia
News and notes emanating from Hudson Yards: clues about Chris Licht’s next venture, a CNN-ABC debate beef, and Charles Barkley’s round mound of rough ratings.
David Zaslav
Dylan Byers • December 7, 2023
A Very Zaz X-mas
News and notes on the media amid the season of yuletide gossip: WBD theories, CNN hypotheticals, and more Zuckerology.
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