MEDIA
Dylan Byers
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July 3, 2024
The Brady Room Rater
Less than a week after the disastrous Biden debate, the White House press corps is pissed—furious at the White House, annoyed at each other—and ready to take the gloves off.
Dylan Byers
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June 28, 2024
‘Post’ Script & CNN’s Debate Hangover
News and notes on the two biggest stories in Washington media: the latest beats in the WaPo crisis and the post-mortem on CNN’s big night in Atlanta.
Dylan Byers
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June 26, 2024
Wet Hot British Summer
News and notes on America’s two most-discussed British media executives: Mark Thompson, who is gearing up for Thursday’s debate; and Will Lewis, who is holding on for dear life on K Street.
Dylan Byers
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June 21, 2024
Inside the Post Coup
The Buzbee smoke bomb wasn’t the only attempt to defenestrate embattled Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis. Earlier this month, journalists on the foreign desk discussed a plan to dig for unflattering information on their new publisher and editor—a new ethical wrinkle in a scandal ostensibly about journalistic principles.
Dylan Byers
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June 19, 2024
The Will Lewis Living Wake
News and notes on the developing and shape-shifting scandal engulfing The Washington Post—the newsroom revolt, the Bezos response, the Barr return, the Merida tidbit, and the coming denouement of Act I.
Dylan Byers
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June 14, 2024
What About Rob?
Two weeks into The Washington Post’s nervous breakdown, Will Lewis’s time in the barrel may be ending. Rob Winnett’s turn may be just beginning.
Dylan Byers
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June 12, 2024
The Will Lewis Forgiveness Tour
News and notes on two D.C. media anxieties of varying proportions: The Lewis redemption rodeo at the WaPo and Mark Thompson’s quiet rejiggering over at CNN.
Lauren Sherman
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June 10, 2024
Profit & Kloss
News and notes on Karlie Kloss’s forays into magazine publishing.
Dylan Byers
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June 7, 2024
License to Will
The latest anxieties and dueling narratives emanating from the expanding Washington Post blast zone on K Street.
Dylan Byers
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June 5, 2024
‘Post’ Mortem
The real and surprising story behind Sally Buzbee’s departure from The Washington Post.
Dylan Byers
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May 31, 2024
The Post-It Episode
News and notes on the Journal newsroom’s Post-It protest and CNN’s month to forget.
Dylan Byers
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May 29, 2024
The Barkley Sweepstakes
As NBC Sports closes in on the NBA “B package,” executives and agents are beginning to contemplate who will lead the broadcasts and studio shows. And whom to pick off from TNT if Zaz is unable to wrest the final package away from Amazon.
Dylan Byers
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May 22, 2024
Will in the World
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis finally unveiled his plan to fix Jeff Bezos’s media heirloom—a mix of new subscription tiers, some management realignment, and other uncontroversial ideas. Is this the best he could find in the McKinsey handbook, or is it merely a prelude to the next plan?
Dylan Byers
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May 17, 2024
English Patience
So many newsrooms seem to be waiting on newly appointed leaders—a number of them British—to swoop in and restore their swagger. Alas, the more you parse their pablum-laden marketing pitches, the more it all looks like the same old playbooks applied to new platforms.
Dylan Byers
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May 15, 2024
No Country for Old Mann
News and notes on the latest storylines coursing through the industry: CNN’s debate coup, NBC’s internal frustrations, and a Condé Nast departure.
Eriq Gardner
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May 13, 2024
Judge Judy Threatens to Make the Tabloids Pay
America’s favorite TV jurist is suing A360 Media, publisher of In Touch Weekly and The National Enquirer, over a Menendez murder trial mix-up. “It’s unconscionable,” she says, “and will be expensive.”
Dylan Byers
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May 10, 2024
The Zucker Savior Myth
The endurance of the “Will Jeff buy CNN?” fantasy, which was stoked again this week, highlights the uncertain state of the media industry, and a few enduring truths about Zucker, too. He may have reinvented himself as an investor, but he remains an operator at heart. And, if given the opportunity, he’d probably be back in the control room in a heartbeat.