THE LATEST ARTICLES
NEWSLETTERS
Jeremy Boreing
MEDIA November 29, 2024
News, notes, frontline observations, and confessions from a smattering of new-media-age entrepreneurs, all of whom have much to be thankful for this time of year. (And some gripes too…)
Rachel Maddow
MEDIA November 22, 2024
News and notes on the latest anxieties inside MSNBC in its SpinCo singularity: questions about the Maddow deal, looming Stamford realities, and much more.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski
MEDIA November 20, 2024
News and notes on the real ulterior motive behind the Mar-a-Lago pilgrimage. Plus, all the nail-biting and agita unleashed at 30 Rock in the wake of the Comcast spinco news.
Mark Thompson
MEDIA November 15, 2024
A gloomy company-wide meeting revealed Mark Thompson’s CNN is still caught between the linear past and the digital future, and nonpolitical news versus 24-hour Trump TV. Insiders wonder who’s paying attention to the content while others wonder if a more sinister fate beckons.


Chris Wallace
MEDIA November 13, 2024
The backstory of Wallace’s self-defenestration at CNN—the latest shoe to drop in an era that won’t stop ending.
mark thompson
MEDIA November 8, 2024
With the election in the rearview, C.E.O. Mark Thompson will finally implement his true transformation plan at the network—including the culling of hundreds of jobs. Many of CNN’s own journalists, plenty of whom were blinded by Trump’s significant victory, have evinced similar naiveté about their own fates.
Donald Trump reporters
MEDIA November 6, 2024
With Trump 2.0 upon us, a number of D.C. media people are cautiously wondering if the highly lucrative, gung-ho cri de coeur, green-room-and-book-deal #resistance marketplace of his last term will return to town with the 47th president. Alas, Trump may not have changed, but the industry sure has.
cesar conde
MEDIA November 1, 2024
Inside 30 Rock, word that Comcast is considering spinning out NBCU’s lesser cable assets—potentially severing MSNBC from NBC—has kicked off a furious sequence of questions about the future of both networks, and about the fate of NBC News Group boss Cesar Conde.


jeff bezos
MEDIA October 30, 2024
The latest news, notes, and hunger cries from within The Washington Post, which finds itself embroiled in a largely predictable self-immolation of its own design—the latest scandal produced by an owner, management team, and rank-and-file that appear to operate a little too comfortably in opposition to one another.
jeff bezos
MEDIA October 25, 2024
The decisions by Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong to spike endorsements of Kamala Harris have created an uproar inside The Washington Post and LA Times, respectively. Is this a genuine gripe, an assault on democracy, or simply the latest grievance consuming a legacy media industry mad as hell and unwilling to take it any longer?
1 2 3 31