THE LATEST ARTICLES
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November 23, 2022
Igermania, the WaPo, & Zaz
News and notes on the interior monologue of the media industry in semi-pre-holiday-repose.
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November 18, 2022
Fred Ryan’s Re-Election
Questions about Ryan’s leadership have become widespread at the Post, where the gulf between the paper and the Times widens, and the finger-pointing has taken hold.
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November 16, 2022
The Licht Show & WaPo Politics
The latest news on Chris Licht’s attempts at CNN transformation, and the biggest story inside The Washington Post.
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November 11, 2022
Licht’s Debate Prep
A tune up for a companywide town hall suggests what’s on the mind of the newish C.E.O.’s anxious charges.
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November 9, 2022
The Cable Election Upset of the Age
Sans Wolf Blitzer and his “key race alerts,” CNN lost the overall ratings battle to MSNBC on election night. It’s a sign that an era keeps ending, of course, but also that the executives in charge haven’t yet figured out how to create the next one.
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November 4, 2022
Can Licht Make the Cuts?
A brutal $100 million financial engineering effort begins at CNN.
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November 2, 2022
A Licht in the Attic
In the last 72 hours, at least twenty CNN employees (on-air talent, rank-and-file staff, and more) have called or texted me, many of them unsolicited, to convey that things have never been worse.
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October 28, 2022
The Chris Licht Gut Punch
CNN staffers are in a panic over forthcoming layoffs, pining for Zucker, and waiting for the next shoe to drop. The party line is “right-sizing,” but Licht and Zaslav’s new approach—a smaller digital footprint, fewer original series and films, cross-functional consolidation—appears to reflect a growing delta between the CNN they inherited and what they want it to be.
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October 26, 2022
Politico’s New Playbook
A couple recent flagship hires at the Beltway Bible represent a new chapter in the talent wars—and the influence of its new owner, Axel Springer.
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October 21, 2022
Tapper Troubles & Semafornication
News and notes on the industry’s inside conversation: a check-in on the Tapper experiment, Murdoch curiosities, and Semafor’s launch.