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Dana Walden
Dylan Byers September 26, 2025
The Kimmel maelstrom touched all corners of the known media universe. But for the Toscana crowd, one question rose above the rest: Did it shake up the Iger succession race?
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers September 24, 2025
Bari Weiss, the Times defector turned Free Press founder, is now poised to cash a giant check from David Ellison and seize the reins at CBS News, sending staffers running for the smelling salts.
Meredith Kopit Levien
Dylan Byers & Julia Alexander September 19, 2025
A defiantly optimistic conversation with Meredith Kopit Levien, C.E.O. of The New York Times Company, on buying The Athletic, the possibility of a Times-powered A.I., and why it’s still all about the news.
David Ellison
Dylan Byers September 12, 2025
As he prepares a potential all-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, David Ellison is aiming to reshape Hollywood and the news business on a Murdochian scale.


Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch
Dylan Byers September 10, 2025
The Murdoch family’s long-running power struggle ended with Lachlan establishing control of Fox and News Corp, underscoring Rupert’s enduring leverage—and leaving James estranged, still defined by opposition to his father’s empire.
Meredith Kopit Levien
Dylan Byers September 5, 2025
The paper of record is quickly evolving from a lifestyle product into a walled-garden multimedia platform, turning its biggest stars—Ezra, Swan, Maggie—into talking heads, and transforming itself into CNN faster than CNN can become the Times.
bari weiss
Dylan Byers September 3, 2025
With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
Jimmy Pitaro
Dylan Byers August 29, 2025
A surprising conversation with Andrew Rosen, the digital media savant, on how the Times and ESPN’s digital paths diverged, and who’s getting in right in the long run.


Meredith Kopit Levien
Dylan Byers August 27, 2025
Yesterday, a pair of activist investors took it upon themselves to remind the New York Times Company of its A.I. potential (as if it needed reminding). Of course, whatever form that will take will likely determine the future of newspapers in the A.I. era.
david ellison
Dylan Byers August 22, 2025
News and notes on Paramount-adjusted EBITDA.
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