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Avlon started his career as a speechwriter for Mayor Rudy Giuliani before pursuing journalism.
MEDIA February 9, 2024
The Hamptons-dwelling CNN anchor and No Labels co-founder is considering a run for Congress this year on a centrist, anti-Trump platform.
Phil Mattingly Poppy Harlow
MEDIA February 7, 2024
The readout from the CNN bunker as Mark Thompson reshapes CNN’s morning schedule, signals diminished interest in linear, and leaves his company of TV stalwarts wondering about the next shoe to drop.
Timothy Forbes, Steve Forbes and Christopher "Kip" Forbes
MEDIA February 2, 2024
Forbes, which is now up for auction one more time, has had a fascinating afterlife since the family sold their control. And it might be a harbinger for some legacy brands, but for one pesky detail.
Jimmy Finkelstein Pamela Gross
MEDIA January 31, 2024
News, notes, and reflections on a totally predictable, ego-driven, anachronistic media tragedy.


Even Jeff Zucker and his American partners may have underestimated the depth of the reaction in Britain to his proposed takeover of The Spectator and The Telegraph.
MEDIA January 26, 2024
The public outcries continue over Jeff Zucker’s quest for two venerable center-right British news brands. Are they reasonable critiques about the potential influence of his Emirati partner, or just sanctimonious and Anglocentric rumblings about two properties in need of fresh ideas and (lots of) fresh cash?
The layoffs at the LA Times, staggering as they were, belied the true extent of the damage the paper has endured under Patrick Soon-Shiong.
MEDIA January 24, 2024
A talmudic reading of the agony and anxiety bubbling around the L.A. Times, and the cautious optimism brimming from Will Lewis’s post-layoffs Washington Post.
Mark Thompson
MEDIA January 19, 2024
A spirited and polite disagreement evinces CNN’s new lay of the land, old anxieties, and the latest power dynamics.
Mark Thompson
MEDIA January 17, 2024
After months of anticipation, CNN C.E.O. Mark Thompson has finally unveiled his shrewd, diplomatic, and resolute manifesto articulating CNN’s digital transformation. So what does it all mean?


The Ackman vs. Axel fight, wherever it goes, is only the latest manifestation of a broader tension between public figures and news organizations in the digital media age.
MEDIA January 12, 2024
More news and notes on the hedge fund manager’s very public crusade against Business Insider, Axel Springer, and KKR.
Bill Ackman responded to the B.I. pieces by essentially placing the media company, which is owned by Axel Springer, at the center of his next activist campaign.
MEDIA January 10, 2024
News and notes on the media holy war of our time: Bill Ackman’s pressure campaign to persuade Business Insider’s investors and executives to disavow a report detailing improper attributions in his wife’s academic work.
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