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Henry Blodget
Dylan Byers May 30, 2025
News and notes on the bloodletting at Business Insider, Henry Blodget’s Web 2.0 darling, which may finally close the chapter on one of the more vexing eras in media history—right in time for the next one.
David Leavy
Dylan Byers May 28, 2025
Once a member of Zaz’s WBD brain trust, David Leavy was dispatched to right the mid-Licht ship at CNN, staying on as C.O.O. for nearly two years. Now, he’s taking on an unspecified role that almost certainly doesn’t exist.
wendy mcmahon
Dylan Byers May 21, 2025
With the high-wire tensions between Paramount and the tormentor-in-chief at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it’s easy to view the exit of CBS News C.E.O. Wendy McMahon as fourth-estate martyrdom. But maybe she just wasn’t very good at her job.
Jake Tapper
Dylan Byers May 14, 2025
Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, Bidenworld’s cover-up, and the dire consequences for the Democratic Party, as reported in ‘Original Sin,’ have stirred up the Beltway blame game and dragged the former president out for a sad redemption tour, while raising the question of what exactly went down between Jake Tapper and Hunter Biden at Super Bowl LII.


David Zaslav
Dylan Byers May 9, 2025
The latest news regarding Zaz’s desire to spin out his cable assets, including CNN, raises all kinds of existential questions for the iconic news network as it prepares to walk the plank. Plus, news and notes on Tapper’s battle with the Bidens.
Jimmy Pitaro
Dylan Byers May 7, 2025
At next week’s upfronts, NBCU’s Mark Lazarus will be selling the synergistic post-linear potential of Versant, formerly known as SpinCo, while ESPN prepares Flagship for its maiden voyage.
shari redstone
Dylan Byers May 2, 2025
Facing a Trump lawsuit, massive debts, and a $400 million kill fee if the Skydance sale falls through, Redstone has privately discussed settling with the president for as much as $20 million. In fact, according to sources close to the company, she’ll likely have to pay much more. “Shari has to make this deal,” said one source close to the principals. “There is no plan B.”
Shari Redstone
Dylan Byers April 30, 2025
Amid Trump’s legal torture of CBS, Shari Redstone has played the role of a spineless placater—a desperate seller eager to settle and liquidate her position in the family heirloom. But her annoyance over CBS News’s coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict seems to be real—and so are her attempts to meddle with the newsroom’s independence.


Bill Owens
Dylan Byers April 25, 2025
News and notes on the aftermath of the ‘60 Minutes’ saga.
Olivia Nuzzi, Ryan Lizza
Dylan Byers April 23, 2025
In the dun-colored afterglow of Nuzzi-gate, Ryan Lizza is trash-talking his former employer and striking out on his own with a Substack and a notable disregard for nondisparagement clauses—while Nuzzi knuckles down on a book of her own.
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