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joe biden
MEDIA April 26, 2024
News, notes, and fresh reporting on a deliciously perfect WHCD week micro-scandal—Politico’s mischievous, made-for-pot-stirring report on the alleged beef between the Times and the White House.
Jim VandeHei
MEDIA April 24, 2024
Life lessons, media observations, and industrial analysis with the co-founder of both Politico and Axios on the eve of the town’s annual prom.
mark thompson
MEDIA April 19, 2024
Six and a half months after Mark Thompson’s arrival at CNN (almost half of Chris Licht’s disastrous tenure), a restless and dour mood is once again enveloping the network. What is Thompson’s true plan, many wonder, and why won’t he articulate it?
barry diller joanna coles les moonves
MEDIA April 17, 2024
Why are shoulder-rubbers Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles taking over Barry Diller’s last-gen mediaco that no one else really wanted? Well, what were the alternatives?


mark thompson
MEDIA April 12, 2024
News and notes on three trending media mini-sagas: Mark Thompson’s inability to share his CNN reinvention, CBS News’ dreary ploy, and Joanna Coles and Ben Sherwood’s Daily Beast M&A effort.
Cesar Conde
MEDIA April 10, 2024
Weeks after the McDaniel micro-nightmare, a peek into the halls of 30 Rock, where talent and executives are trying to put the incident behind them while continuing to grumble and privately rehash questions about accountability.
Cesar Conde
MEDIA March 29, 2024
In the aftermath of the Ronna McDaniel hiring-and-firing scandal, the NBC News Group blame game has begun to point back toward chairman Cesar Conde, his hands-off leadership style, and his very transparent ambitions.
ronna mcdaniel
MEDIA March 27, 2024
Inside 30 Rock, the dueling narratives over the lengthy courtship and rapid firing of the 2020 election-denying former R.N.C. chair highlight a behind-the-scenes blame game over the network’s conflicted vision of political diversity, and itself.


Ronna McDaniel
MEDIA March 22, 2024
In her post-R.N.C. reality, Ronna McDaniel will take her talents to NBC News for a post-peak cable contract that reflects both the stain of Trump and the humbling of the industry itself.
anna wintour roger lynch
MEDIA March 20, 2024
News and notes on the upstairs-downstairs squabbles at Condé Nast.
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