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Dylan Byers December 2, 2023
CNN’s new boss has been working on a 2024 business plan that will restructure the network around a multiplatform philosophy. The plan, which will go into effect next quarter, will move significantly more resources into CNN’s digital efforts.
Jeff Zucker speaks at the 2019 Mirror Awards at Cipriani 42nd Street on June 13, 2019 in New York City
Dylan Byers November 30, 2023
The C.E.O. of RedBird IMI took a romp through London Town—holding court at the Berkeley, making bold declarations about editorial independence, meeting with associates, winning hearts and minds—to try to bring home the fund’s acquisition of The Telegraph.
Jeff Zucker, the former NBCUniversal C.E.O. and CNN president who is now C.E.O. of the Abu Dhabi-backed joint investment vehicle Redbird IMI.
Dylan Byers November 24, 2023
Jeff Zucker, Gerry Cardinale, and Sheikh Mansour are spending $1.4 billion to take over The Telegraph, presumably introducing the business to the U.S. and making it the thinking person’s Daily Mail. Is it a brilliant move, or might it go the way of other recent legacy reboots?
Fairly or unfairly, David Zaslav has become a convenient caricature for the various pitfalls of legacy media businesses.
Dylan Byers November 16, 2023
News and notes from around the media industry before everyone begins to disappear for the holidays.


Some Univision journliasts saw the Trump interview as glaring evidence of a broader effort by their new parent company—which has close ties to Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—to curry favor with the former president.
Dylan Byers November 10, 2023
A softball interview with Trump is unnerving staff inside Univision, and inside the White House, as the formerly left-leaning Spanish-language network—now under new leadership, and with surprising new Republican allies—undergoes a dramatic pivot to the right.
Sally Buzbee
Dylan Byers November 9, 2023
News and notes on Will Lewis’s maiden voyage at the Post and Kevin Mayer’s return to the podium.
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Dylan Byers November 3, 2023
News and notes on the regime change at CNN and the Murdoch baggage following The Washington Post’s presumptive next C.E.O.
Jeff Bezos solicited six-page memos from five semi-finalists and conducted one-on-one Zoom interviews with each of them.
Dylan Byers November 1, 2023
News and notes from around the media business—a WaPo surprise, a legacy bloodletting, and Emerson Collective’s latest investment in the space.


The inevitability of a Paramount sale is something Shari’s fellow media executives have taken for granted since she seized the reins of CBS and Viacom from her father, Sumner.
Dylan Byers October 27, 2023
News and notes from around the media industry.
In recent days, Bezos has met with the final two candidates for the Post publisher and C.E.O. position.
Dylan Byers October 25, 2023
I’m told that Bezos is expected to make his WaPo C.E.O. selection in a matter of days. Barring any unforeseen crisis or change of heart, he will formally announce the new leader no later than next month.
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