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MEDIA June 14, 2023
Fred Ryan’s tenure atop The Washington Post Company can be split into two: the Bezos-fueled resurrection years and then the post-Baron, post-Trump malaise. So what comes next?
Chris Licht was deposed on Wednesday, during an early morning walk with Zaslav in the smoke-saturated air of Central Park.
MEDIA June 9, 2023
CNN staffers are cautiously optimistic about the potential for a leadership reset, even if they are also clear-eyed about the reality that Zaz & Co. haven’t lost any of their conviction in the mission to re-center the network, or that the cable TV business is getting smaller every day.
Chris Licht
MEDIA June 7, 2023
The embattled CNN C.E.O. will be leaving the company, and longtime beloved top executive Amy Entelis will steady the ship until Zaz picks a new leader. It’s been a hell of a week since The Atlantic story dropped, and yet here goes another reinvention.
David Leavy, the newly implemented C.O.O. at CNN and a longtime member of the Zaslav braintrust.
MEDIA June 2, 2023
It’s been a nightmarish 48 hours at CNN: first, Zaslav’s lieutenant Dave Leavy was brought in as C.O.O., marginalizing Chris Licht’s authority; then came that brutal Tim Alberta dissertation in The Atlantic. Hudson Yards is alight with fresh agony. But is the worst over?


Graydon Carter, Bob Iger, and Jeff Zucker.
MEDIA May 31, 2023
An elegy for media’s old guard in an age of generational change.
To level-set, Jeff Bezos spent twice as much on this new 417-foot, Sanchez-adorned yacht as he did on the Post.
MEDIA May 24, 2023
Insights and observations on what the chattering classes are chatting about in advance of the holiday weekend.
James Pitaro, Chairman of ESPN.
MEDIA May 19, 2023
Disney’s announcement that it will send ESPN off on its own D.T.C. journey introduces a host of provocations for the industry: namely, is this the true beginning of the end of cable, and perhaps of ESPN as we once knew it, too?
“We know Trump and his tendencies, everyone does,” Christiane Amanpour said. “He just seizes the stage and dominates, no matter how much flack the moderator tries to aim at the incoming.”
MEDIA May 17, 2023
Notes on the ongoing fallout from a cable news makeover.


CNN C.E.O. Chris Licht had advised Collins not to be combative with Trump, sources familiar said.
MEDIA May 12, 2023
Inside CNN, the reverberations from Wednesday’s town hall are still being profoundly felt, further testing the long-strained relationship between the network’s anchors and journalists on one side and their newly dispassionate boss on the other. As one insider put it: “It’s Chris Licht’s fucking CNN now.”
Kaitlan Collins is now the primary talent on which Chris Licht is staking his pivot to the middle.
MEDIA May 10, 2023
Kaitlan is Licht’s answer at 9 p.m.—the great conservative hope upon which his legacy will likely hang.
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