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Murdoch’s shockingly candid deposition hardly guarantees that Dominion Voting Systems will win their defamation lawsuit—but it certainly improves their position.
MEDIA March 1, 2023
As documents reveal Fox News anchors and executives (and even the chairman, himself) pointing fingers and whispering about how crazy everyone else is, a familiar question percolates: Will Murdoch need a new Rebekah Brooks?
Don Lemon seems to have been given every warning to self-edit before saying what’s on his mind, which, coincidentally, is the one thing that actually delivers ratings.
MEDIA February 24, 2023
More news and notes on the Lemon saga, the Barkley-Gayle question, and ‘CNN This Morning.’
Don Lemon, a gifted broadcaster, is hardly a stranger to moments of eyebrow-raising, journalist-becomes-the-story misadventures.
MEDIA February 22, 2023
The Don Lemon “women-in-their-prime” fiasco has become the quintessential scandal of New CNN—a microcosm of Zaz’s prerogatives, the network’s ratings struggles, Licht’s operational inexperience, and the realities of the Dantean journey through the decline of cable news.
The buzziest news out of CNN C.E.O. Chris Licht’s morning meeting was his condemnation of Don Lemon’s foolish and controversial and ageist comments about women.
MEDIA February 17, 2023
News and notes on the two biggest stories in cable news: the messy fallout at Fox News from the discovery in the Dominion case, and Don Lemon’s lapse.


Jimmy Pitaro, the president-turned-recently-appointed chairman of ESPN
MEDIA February 15, 2023
News and notes on the biggest stories coursing through the media: Iger’s ESPN tea leaves, WaPo transformation, and a CNN digital counterfactual.
CNN C.E.O. Chris Licht is now in negotiations to bring Charles Barkley to the network for a news-oriented primetime show, two sources with knowledge of the matter tell Dylan.
MEDIA February 10, 2023
As he tries to woo Gayle King, Chris Licht sets his sights on bringing Charles Barkley to CNN.
Chris Licht’s inaugural year running CNN has involved a confection of headaches, both macroeconomic and small.
MEDIA February 8, 2023
Chris Licht expects to grow CNN’s profitability this year by $150 million, up to $900 million. But how?
ABC News Chief Kim Godwin has her detractors at at the network, fairly or not.
MEDIA February 3, 2023
At last, the T.J. Holmes-Amy Robach fiasco has come to an end. And so have the industry murmurs about the future of ABC chief Kim Godwin. But a bigger curiosity is now coming into focus.


Gayle King, the star of CBS Mornings
MEDIA January 31, 2023
Chris Licht is out to his pal and old colleague about hosting a prime time interview show that would still allow her to host ‘CBS Mornings.’ It could be just the sort of narrative-changing move he needs. Will she take it?
A recent New Yorker profile has inadvertenly unearthed tensions between WaPo publisher Fred Ryan and Politico’s former owner Robert Allbritton.
MEDIA January 27, 2023
The personal and nearly litigious backstory behind one of the most complicated political relationships in Washington media—the bond between Fred Ryan and Robert Allbritton.
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