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Dylan Byers March 8, 2023
Inside Fox News, the network is starting to manifest the same tensions and schisms as the party it covers. Plus, news and notes on Licht’s pivot and Semafor’s controversial partnership.
In his Dominion v. Fox News testimony, Rupert Murdoch said hosts like Lou Dobbs were “endorsing” Trump’s election lies.
Dylan Byers & Eriq Gardner March 3, 2023
A close reading of the Fox News-Dominion $1.6 billion lawsuit revelations: Is Fox signaling that it won’t settle? Is Murdoch playing for his legacy? Will Fox repatriate to Nevada? And did Dominion overplay its hand?
Murdoch’s shockingly candid deposition hardly guarantees that Dominion Voting Systems will win their defamation lawsuit—but it certainly improves their position.
Dylan Byers March 2, 2023
As documents reveal Fox News anchors and executives (and even the chairman, himself) pointing fingers and whispering about how crazy everyone else is, a familiar question percolates: Will Murdoch need a new Rebekah Brooks?
Don Lemon seems to have been given every warning to self-edit before saying what’s on his mind, which, coincidentally, is the one thing that actually delivers ratings.
Dylan Byers February 24, 2023
More news and notes on the Lemon saga, the Barkley-Gayle question, and ‘CNN This Morning.’


Don Lemon, a gifted broadcaster, is hardly a stranger to moments of eyebrow-raising, journalist-becomes-the-story misadventures.
Dylan Byers February 23, 2023
The Don Lemon “women-in-their-prime” fiasco has become the quintessential scandal of New CNN—a microcosm of Zaz’s prerogatives, the network’s ratings struggles, Licht’s operational inexperience, and the realities of the Dantean journey through the decline of cable news.
The buzziest news out of CNN C.E.O. Chris Licht’s morning meeting was his condemnation of Don Lemon’s foolish and controversial and ageist comments about women.
Dylan Byers February 17, 2023
News and notes on the two biggest stories in cable news: the messy fallout at Fox News from the discovery in the Dominion case, and Don Lemon’s lapse.
Jimmy Pitaro, the president-turned-recently-appointed chairman of ESPN
Dylan Byers February 16, 2023
News and notes on the biggest stories coursing through the media: Iger’s ESPN tea leaves, WaPo transformation, and a CNN digital counterfactual.
CNN C.E.O. Chris Licht is now in negotiations to bring Charles Barkley to the network for a news-oriented primetime show, two sources with knowledge of the matter tell Dylan.
Dylan Byers February 10, 2023
As he tries to woo Gayle King, Chris Licht sets his sights on bringing Charles Barkley to CNN.


Chris Licht’s inaugural year running CNN has involved a confection of headaches, both macroeconomic and small.
Dylan Byers February 9, 2023
Chris Licht expects to grow CNN’s profitability this year by $150 million, up to $900 million. But how?
ABC News Chief Kim Godwin has her detractors at at the network, fairly or not.
Dylan Byers February 4, 2023
At last, the T.J. Holmes-Amy Robach fiasco has come to an end. And so have the industry murmurs about the future of ABC chief Kim Godwin. But a bigger curiosity is now coming into focus.
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