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The Pelosi Succession, Chapek’s Hail Mary, Marvel Fatigue
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Happy Friday, and welcome to all of our new subscribers. You’re reading the Daily Courant, our afternoon guide to the latest reporting at Puck.
Today, we lead with Tara Palmeri’s insiderly accounting of who’s up (Judy Woodruff’s NewsHour successors), who’s down (Ron Klain, Adam Schiff), and who might be looking for a private sector exit in Biden’s Washington.
Plus, below the fold, Matt Belloni examines the industry chatter surrounding Bob Chapek’s handling of the turbulence at Disney. Then he stops by the studio with Peter Hamby to project who comes out on top in Hollywood’s new streaming death match.
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| Succession Drama Sweeps D.C. |
| Investigating the early steps to replace Pelosi, Gillibrand’s possible 13-year itch, Bernie’s sulking, and the dish inside the West Wing. |
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Spring is in the air, at last, and that rebirth is manifesting itself in this town via a number of high-profile succession storylines. First, Judy Woodruff, Washington’s grand dame of political news, is set to step down from the anchor desk of PBS’s NewsHour after the midterm elections, after carefully picking her successors, Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett. Woodruff, 75, has been a member of the Washington press corp since 1976 and a member of its ruling class more or less ever since. She was an O.G. PBS anchor, who co-hosted CNN’s Inside Politics with Bernard Shaw before boomeranging back to PBS full-time. She sits on the board of the Gridiron Club, where she was bouncing around during the super-spreader event this spring. Along with her husband, fellow beltway creature Al Hunt, she has become an icon of the exalted political journalist class.
Woodruff seems just as spry as her famous predecessor, Jim Lehrer, who stepped down from the same anchor chair at 78. She is planning to stay at the network in a role that hasn’t yet been determined, I’m told, and enjoys the full support of PBS’s all-female troika: chairwoman Sharon Rockefeller, C.E.O. Paula Kerger, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting C.E.O. Pat Harrison. Even though the plan is pretty much baked, there are still some fears in quiet corners of the network that the empowered Woodruff could reverse course and stay on. But a new studio is being built for Bennett and Nawaz, who will both host the hourly show in the tradition once carried out by Lehrer, Gwen Ifill, and Woodruff...
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| Chapek's Hail Mary |
| Under Bob Chapek, Disney’s subscriber growth is holding up while Wall Street’s favorite metric—actual revenue—lags behind. |
| MATTHEW BELLONI |
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| Netflix vs. Disney |
| Matt Belloni joins Peter to make sense of the latest battles in the streaming wars, and project who might eventually come out on top. |
| PETER HAMBY |
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| Little Putin |
| Putin’s rough-and-tumble childhood in the dvors of Leningrad shaped his thinking and actions. Can this portrait help us predict his next move? |
| JULIA IOFFE |
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| Ellison's Ascendance |
| In his twilight years, the private-island-dwelling former Democrat has become a force in G.O.P. political fundraising. |
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