Remnick’s Numbers, Ronny vs. Donny, a Wall Street Saga

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon guide to the latest news from Puck.

First up today, Dylan Byers reveals how Dan Abrams lured Chris Cuomo from Hamptons exile to Perry Sook’s cable news JUCO for disgraced media stars. Plus, how The New Yorker became a $150 million business.

Then, below the fold, Tina Nguyen reports from Tampa on Ronny & Donny’s pyrotechnic straw poll smackdown. And Bill Cohan unfurls a scorched-earth FINRA saga that only Wall Street could love.

Cuomo’s decision to join the network, which he announced on Tuesday at the end of an hour-long interview on the channel about his ouster from CNN, presumably reflects a couple of calculations: first, that hosting a podcast or sitting on the beach isn’t going to satisfy his ego; and second, that at 51 years old, with a newly built home on the waterfront, he is going to need money—money which looks increasingly unlikely to come from his former employer. One cornerstone of Cuomo’s arbitration claim was that “his journalistic integrity” had been so “unjustifiably smeared” that it was “difficult if not impossible for [him] to find similar work in the future.” Alas, thanks to NewsNation, that is not the case...