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Wednesday and Friday
Ace media reporter Dylan Byers brings readers into the C-suite as he chronicles the biggest stories in the industry: the future of cable news in the streaming era, the transformation of legacy publishers, the tech giants remaking the market, and all the egos involved.
THE LATEST ARTICLES
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November 11, 2022
Licht’s Debate Prep
A tune up for a companywide town hall suggests what’s on the mind of the newish C.E.O.’s anxious charges.
Dylan Byers
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November 9, 2022
The Cable Election Upset of the Age
Sans Wolf Blitzer and his “key race alerts,” CNN lost the overall ratings battle to MSNBC on election night. It’s a sign that an era keeps ending, of course, but also that the executives in charge haven’t yet figured out how to create the next one.
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November 4, 2022
Can Licht Make the Cuts?
A brutal $100 million financial engineering effort begins at CNN.
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November 2, 2022
A Licht in the Attic
In the last 72 hours, at least twenty CNN employees (on-air talent, rank-and-file staff, and more) have called or texted me, many of them unsolicited, to convey that things have never been worse.
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October 28, 2022
The Chris Licht Gut Punch
CNN staffers are in a panic over forthcoming layoffs, pining for Zucker, and waiting for the next shoe to drop. The party line is “right-sizing,” but Licht and Zaslav’s new approach—a smaller digital footprint, fewer original series and films, cross-functional consolidation—appears to reflect a growing delta between the CNN they inherited and what they want it to be.
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October 21, 2022
Tapper Troubles & Semafornication
News and notes on the industry’s inside conversation: a check-in on the Tapper experiment, Murdoch curiosities, and Semafor’s launch.
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October 20, 2022
The Murdoch Succession Moment Arrives
New reporting on Lachlan’s ascension, Rupert’s merger rationale and ‘Journal’-Fox rollup fears.
Dylan Byers
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October 14, 2022
A Wrinkle at ‘The Times’
Friday news and notes on the inside conversation coursing through the media business, from Times grumblings to Tapper’s primetime performance.
Dylan Byers
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October 13, 2022
Timesism & Its Discontents
The New York Times is stronger than ever—lightyears ahead of the Post in subscription, acquisitive, by far the most influential beacon of journalism on Earth. And yet a string of amicable high-profile journalistic departures has led some Media Cassandras to shriek. Big deal? No deal? Well, it’s the Times, after all, so it’s a thing.
Dylan Byers
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October 7, 2022
More MSNBC Murmurs & CNN Fantasy Football
News and notes emanating from the media industry on a fall Friday: the Semafor pre-launch buzz, Punchbowl rumors, the Licht vision, and the MSNBC pickle.
