CNN’s “Higher Purpose,” A.O.C. Growing Pains, Hollywood’s Super Agent

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon crib sheet to Puck’s latest reporting.

Today, we continue with Bill Cohan’s indispensable postmortem of SVB’s collapse, probing the prevailing rumors and backchannel conversations about what actually precipitated the bank run.

Then, below the fold: Dylan Byers annotates David Zaslav’s CNN H.Q. tour and other nuggets of media news. Tina Nguyen x-rays DeSantis’s Trojan horse foreign affairs strategy and the N.R.A.’s vanishing act. On The Powers That Be, Tara Palmeri unpacks A.O.C.’s transformation while Teddy Schleifer recaps how Ron Conway marshaled Silicon Valley’s SVB response. And on The Town, Matt Belloni chats with super agent Phil Sun about the complicated art of managing a Hollywood star.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

A postmortem of an abbreviated financial crisis, and a look ahead to the next one in our social media age.

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DYLAN BYERS

A scholarly perusal of the WBD C.E.O.’s arrival at CNN HQ. Plus, news and notes on Zucker’s media rollup and Mad Dog Beckman.

TINA NGUYEN

News and notes on the subtle movements on the right: DeSantis’s domestic policy-based foreign affairs play, and the N.R.A.’s long shadow.

PETER HAMBY, TARA PALMERI, BEN LANDY and TEDDY SCHLEIFER

Tara Palmeri joins Peter to discuss A.O.C.’s new role in Congress and address all the speculation about her future plans. Then Teddy Schleifer and Ben Landy dig into how Ron Conway helped save SVB.