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F1
Dylan Byers July 11, 2025
With ESPN unwilling to match Tim Cook and Eddy Cue’s offer, the U.S. rights to Formula One are almost certainly headed to Apple’s streamer, trading cable TV’s reach for Big Tech revenue. Here’s hoping Cupertino will be a better, more creative, partner to F1 than it was to MLS.
David Ellison
Dylan Byers July 9, 2025
With its capitulation to Trump complete, Paramount’s merger with Skydance can finally proceed, leaving CBS News unmoored, if a little relieved, and questioning if its new owners secretly sweetened the settlement deal. Naturally, there are already rumblings about what David Ellison wants and expects from his news division.
Mark Thompson CNN
Dylan Byers June 27, 2025
A special inaugural summer mailbag, featuring your most pressing questions about the future of cable news, TNT, Mark Thompson, Erin Burnett, and Anderson Cooper. Plus the non-return of Jeff Zucker and a Versant pronunciation guide.
Larry Ellison
Dylan Byers June 25, 2025
While the media world’s eyes are trained on the CBS–Trump settlement negotiations, and its impact on the Ellison family’s tortured acquisition of Paramount, Larry himself has his eyes on a bigger prize at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: TikTok and Stargate.


Derek Thompson
Dylan Byers June 20, 2025
Editorial salaries have been on a grim, steady slide since Graydon Carter gave up the reins—and the generous coffers—at Vanity Fair. But this week, news of The Atlantic’s hiring spree and the elusive promise of Substack riches has reporters following the money.
Hamish McKenzie
Dylan Byers June 18, 2025
Leaked details about Substack’s new fundraise conjure deeper questions about the tech platform cum writing tool. For starters, is it a media company or a tech play?
Will Lewis
Dylan Byers June 13, 2025
What’s changed at The Washington Post amid this endless and ostensible period of transformation and renewal? Almost nothing, which is either part of a master plan to turn the Post into the Amazon Marketplace of news, or just more inertia and mismanagement at America’s allegedly third-most-important newspaper.
Gunnar Wiedenfels
Dylan Byers June 11, 2025
With the industry in inexorable decline, ratings at a nadir, and younger audiences turning to YouTube and TikTok, Gunnar Wiedenfels will inevitably look at CNN and decide he can maintain relatively similar profits at a mere fraction of the cost. This is the beginning of the end.


Karine Jean-Pierre
Dylan Byers June 6, 2025
K.J.P. is politically homeless after an ill-timed defection from the Democratic Party—yet another misstep for a White House press secretary who could never read the room. Worse, she appears to be positioning herself for a second act on television at the very moment that the industry is melting away.
Jeff Bezos
Dylan Byers June 4, 2025
After rebuffing A.I. publicly—including suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement—the Times finally announced a content deal with… the company run by the owner of its rival.
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