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Black Monday: Inside the Carlson-Lemon Double Shocker

Insights and revelations regarding a stunning and extraordinary day in the media industry. (Jeff Shell, please buy these guys Rivians!)

Photos: Janos Kummer/Getty Images & Jesse Grant/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
April 25, 2023

On Monday morning, denizens of the provincial hinterlands of the American media industry were still gleefully picking over the entrails of the stunning news that Jeff Shell, the C.E.O. of NBCUniversal, had been ousted for an inappropriate relationship with his colleague Hadley Gamble, an overseas correspondent for CNBC. As my Puck partner Matt Belloni noted, it was a stunning revelation that seemed to foreshadow so many derivative decisions—the future of NBCU and the future of a hypothetical NBC-WBD tie up, among them.