Eriq Gardner
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April 4, 2022
The “Shitty Media Men” Lawsuit From Hell
Five years after journalist Moira Donegan created a Google spreadsheet titled “Shitty Media Men,” wherein women could anonymously list allegations of sexual misconduct by men in the teleco and publishing industries, she’s facing the growing likelihood of having to defend herself at trial. On Thursday, a federal judge in Brooklyn rejected Donegan’s attempt to block […]
Eriq Gardner
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April 1, 2022
How to Make and Lose Millions in an E-Sports Coup
Not many companies experience a genuine coup. But FaZe Clan, the gaming collective, recently did, and lived to brag about it. On August 17, 2018, employees raided the company’s Los Angeles office, grabbing computers, gaming equipment, and furniture, and leaving behind empty boxes of expensive electronics. Pictures of the spectacle would later make it into […]
William D. Cohan
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April 3, 2022
Ari’s Comp and Warren Buffett’s Wink
Leave it to Ari Emanuel, the founder and head of the newly-public Endeavor Group Holdings, to get the headlines for being the highest-paid executive in Hollywood last year, with a total package clocking in at $308 million, most of which is a long-term equity grant that only has value if Emanuel supercharges the Endeavor stock […]
Dylan Byers
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April 1, 2022
D.C.’s Post-Trump Media Reality-Check Rumbles On
Of course it was Mike Allen, the inveterate D.C. chronicler and media soothsayer, who broke the news this morning that Washington reporting power couple Peter Baker (The Times) and Susan Glasser (The New Yorker) were putting the finishing touches on a new Trump book, The Divider, out this fall. Baker and Glasser, of course, are […]
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