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Emma Tucker
Dylan Byers March 14, 2025
Emma Tucker arrived at The Wall Street Journal a couple years ago to replace the complacency of the Matt Murray era, with a mandate to make a product that was feistier, less academic, totally data-driven, and, sure, maybe even a little British. Naturally, her newsroom covered her office in Post-it notes and gave her plenty of grief, but it kinda worked.
Jeff Bezos
Dylan Byers March 13, 2025
Bezos’s subscriber-alienating decision to take greater control of the Washington Post opinion section, and to impose his free-markets ideological mandate, is not unlike the journalistic tradition at The Economist and The Wall Street Journal… neither of which are exactly pro-Trump mouthpieces.
David Shipley
Dylan Byers March 8, 2025
Jeff Bezos had been losing patience with The Washington Post’s liberal predilection long before he mandated a purely pro-markets Opinion section, and even before endorsement-gate. In fact, the tensions that culminated in Opinion editor David Shipley’s resignation had been building for years.
Jeff Bezos
Dylan Byers March 6, 2025
The latest news and notes from the Post in-crowd and D.C. haut monde about Bezos’s intentions and opportunities.


Dylan Byers February 28, 2025
A candid discussion with Noah Oppenheim, the former NBC News president, about the headaches at his old haunt (and other industry pickles) as the television news business wades through a series of not-great options.
Rachel Maddow
Dylan Byers February 27, 2025
MSNBC’s $25 million-a-year anchor isn’t going to take it anymore, calling out the network—and by implication her new boss, Rebecca Kutler—for firing host Joy Reid and a slate of producers. But her colleagues are privately pointing out the irony of her latest crusade.
Rob Manfred
Dylan Byers February 21, 2025
MLB and ESPN announced they will part ways at the end of the 2025 season, after the sports network refused to re-up their current, diluted deal. Now, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is trying to save face while scrambling to find a new home for America’s pastime.
Wendy McMahon
Dylan Byers February 20, 2025
News and notes on the latest defenestration at CBS News (and the next one, too), plus a coronation at Politico.


David Remnick and Nick Thompson
Dylan Byers February 15, 2025
While publishers file sweeping, indignant (possibly useless) lawsuits against A.I. companies using their work to train their learning models, the industry is at a loss as to what to actually do about their A.I. futures—if there is anything that can be done at all.
bill owens
Dylan Byers February 13, 2025
Amid the depressing Shari-Trump ‘60 Minutes’ settlement chatter, the newly reformatted and spruced-up ‘CBS Evening News’ seems to be a quickly metastasizing ratings and formatting disaster—and the latest reminder that few things unite a newsroom quite like one of their boss’s public shortcomings.
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