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CNN C.E.O. Mark Thompson has been in extensive talks with Alex MacCallum, the well-regarded digital product guru who served with him for eight years at the Times.
MEDIA January 3, 2024
The newish CNN C.E.O. has his eye on Alex MacCallum, the Washington Post C.R.O. and his former Times disciple, to help him enact his drastic digital transformation effort.
Mark Thompson
MEDIA December 27, 2023
As the year ends, a talmudic reading of the four most consequential plotlines bewitching the media industry as it enters 2024.
MEDIA December 22, 2023
News and notes on the topics everyone is fulminating over as the holidays set in: Zazmount possibilities, Will Lewis’s forthcoming tenure at The Washington Post, and early grumblings from CNN on the Thompson era.
A combination of WBD and Paramount, even with a sale of various cable assets, would offer Zaz a true gem in many ways.
MEDIA December 20, 2023
News and notes on the biggest stories roiling the industry: the Zaz-Shari deal possibilities and Will Lewis’s arrival at the union-torn, money-losing Washington Post.


James Bennet, the undeniably brilliant former New York Times Opinion editor, was ousted from the paper in June 2020 after greenlighting Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton’s op-ed calling for military intervention to quell the civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd.
MEDIA December 15, 2023
News and notes on James Bennet’s biblically long screed against the Gray Lady, A.G., illiberalism, and more.
Most media executives see an obvious ceiling to Tucker’s ambitions, with Beck, Megyn, and O’Reilly providing ample evidence of the limits to going it alone in the subscription-based creator economy.
MEDIA December 13, 2023
TCN, Tucker’s new $9-a-month streaming service, may portend the limits of the direct-to-consumer media economy—and suggest whether there is, indeed, life after cable stardom.
Chris Licht emerged at the event under the banner of his own company, Licht Media.
MEDIA December 8, 2023
News and notes emanating from Hudson Yards: clues about Chris Licht’s next venture, a CNN-ABC debate beef, and Charles Barkley’s round mound of rough ratings.
David Zaslav arrives at the Sun Valley Lodge for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 11, 2023, in Sun Valley, Idaho.
MEDIA December 6, 2023
News and notes on the media amid the season of yuletide gossip: WBD theories, CNN hypotheticals, and more Zuckerology.


Mark Thompson
MEDIA December 1, 2023
CNN’s new boss has been working on a 2024 business plan that will restructure the network around a multiplatform philosophy. The plan, which will go into effect next quarter, will move significantly more resources into CNN’s digital efforts.
Jeff Zucker speaks at the 2019 Mirror Awards at Cipriani 42nd Street on June 13, 2019 in New York City
MEDIA November 29, 2023
The C.E.O. of RedBird IMI took a romp through London Town—holding court at the Berkeley, making bold declarations about editorial independence, meeting with associates, winning hearts and minds—to try to bring home the fund’s acquisition of The Telegraph.
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