Happy Monday, and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon compendium of Puck’s best new reporting.

Today, we lead with Dylan Byers’s inside reporting into Bari Weiss’s first week helming CBS News, where staff say the iconoclastic Free Press founder has wasted no time making ambitious programming decisions and evincing her knack for disruption. But how far can wrangling major guests—like Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice to discuss the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, say—go toward recapturing the network’s diminished audience? And can other cornerstone programs, like Evening News, be revived at all?

Plus, below the fold: Leigh Ann Caldwell examines Marjorie Taylor Greene’s slow-moving divorce from the G.O.P. Marion Maneker and prominent next-gen art collector Pete Scantland break down his unorthodox collecting philosophy. Julie Davich spotlights the surprising opportunities in the European ceramics market. And Sarah Shapiro reveals ShopMy’s top 10 most popular items from September.

Meanwhile, on the pods: Jon Kelly is joined by New York Times Company C.E.O. Meredith Kopit Levien on a special episode of The Powers That Be to discuss the paper’s competitive moat and evolving M&A strategy. On The Varsity, John Ourand is joined by NBC’s Frank DiGraci and Noah Eagle for a spirited preview of the NBA season. On Impolitic, John Heilemann and Pablo Torre parse the Republican outrage over Bad Bunny doing the Super Bowl halftime show. And on a live episode of The Town, Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw make the case to buy or sell various entities across the entertainment landscape.

With the week’s short-order wrangling of two former secretaries of State, Bari Weiss is already proving she can get things done at CBS News. But her management of layoffs and resurrecting the ‘Evening News’ will be the next tests in her very new assignment.

As Marjorie Taylor Greene has publicly broken with Trump and the G.O.P. on issues from Israel to Epstein to Obamacare, her posturing might be about something much bigger than frustration with her party.

After he figured out how to build a better billboard, Ohio native Peter Scantland began building a collection. Now, the 46-year-old is endowing and collaborating with museums, and offering a promising ideal of the younger collector.

As auction houses have retreated from the category of European ceramics amid declining prices, a next-generation dealer spots a market opportunity.

An exclusive look at what shoppers are craving this fall, from Staud and Loeffler Randall boots to Gucci’s Giglio tote, Khaite’s $600 jeans, La Ligne’s Mini Marin Sweater, and other autumnal standards.

In a very special episode, Jon Kelly has a candid conversation with New York Times Company C.E.O. Meredith Kopit Levien about Gray Lady’s extraordinary transformation during her tenure. The two chop it up about the Times’s M&A strategy, the company’s investment in software, the paper’s institutional advantages, the evolution of its lifestyle product strategy, and its signature investment in the newsroom.

NBC’s Frank DiGraci and Noah Eagle join John for a spirited NBA season preview, as the network and league reunite for the first time since the 2002 Finals. They break down how the deal came together, how NBC plans to evolve its coverage while nodding to its iconic hoops legacy, and why reaching younger fans is more important than ever. They also touch on the rise of athlete-owned media—and much more.

John welcomes the host of Pablo Torre Finds Out back to the show to discuss a pair of freak-outs at the intersection of sports, politics, and commerce: the Republican outrage over Bad Bunny being chosen to headline next year’s Super Bowl halftime show, and the NBA’s panic over the unfolding scandal, exposed by Pablo’s exclusive reporting, involving billionaire L.A. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and the team’s superstar forward, Kawhi Leonard.

Live from Bloomberg’s Screentime event in L.A., Matt and Lucas Shaw make the case to buy or sell various entities across the entertainment industry, including the Rock, Comcast, Louis C.K., the Sora 2 freak-out, Glen Powell, Marvel, and more!

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