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Ace media reporter Dylan Byers brings readers into the C-suite as he chronicles the biggest stories in the industry: the future of cable news in the streaming era, the transformation of legacy publishers, the tech giants remaking the market, and all the egos involved. Also featuring a weekly dispatch from Puckās crack streaming/media analyst, Julia Alexander.
THE LATEST ARTICLES
Dylan Byers
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April 9, 2025
CNBCās Reign of Tariff
NBCUās soon-to-be-spun-off business news channel loves a financial crisis, and this week its ratings rose as markets tanked. But that doesnāt lessen the challenges it faces as it gets spun off from its parentco.
Dylan Byers
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April 4, 2025
Jonestown
News and notes on Radhika Jonesās departure from Vanity Fair.
Dylan Byers
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April 3, 2025
An MSNBC-NBC Custody Battle
Among the knock-on effects of Comcast spinning out its lesser cable darlings are a series of impending beefs, conflicts, and tough choices for MSNBC and NBC News. Some talent and executives will move up, while others will realize thereās not room for everyone at the cool kidsā table.
Dylan Byers
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March 28, 2025
Flack Attack
Ironically, whatās plaguing media organizations right nowāapart from the diminished revenue and the daily beatings from the White House, of courseāis a lack of storytelling. No wonder everyone from the Post to Politico is looking for a few good comms.
Dylan Byers
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March 27, 2025
CNN+ Ća Change
Americaās hair is on fire, but the countryās former go-to around-the-clock news source is crawling around in the ratings basement. In the networkās latest, late-day attempt to come up with digital strategy, C.E.O. Mark Thompson is getting the old gang back together.
Dylan Byers
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March 21, 2025
Lessinās Learned
Jessica Lessin, the digital media pioneer and Information C.E.O., offers her candid assessment of the market, shares her investment thesis, and discusses her endgame.
Dylan Byers
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March 19, 2025
ChatNYT
Yes, itās very early and everyone is saying all the right things, but itās also clear that The New York Times Co. has learned its lesson from highly disruptive technologies during the past couple decades and is not about to miss out on A.I. Does the industry, or its newsroom, fully understand the implications?
Dylan Byers
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March 14, 2025
Tuckerās Last Stand
Emma Tucker arrived at The Wall Street Journal a couple years ago to replace the complacency of the Matt Murray era, with a mandate to make a product that was feistier, less academic, totally data-driven, and, sure, maybe even a little British. Naturally, her newsroom covered her office in Post-it notes and gave her plenty of grief, but it kinda worked.
Dylan Byers
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March 13, 2025
Til Jeff Do Us Part
Bezosās subscriber-alienating decision to take greater control of the Washington Post opinion section, and to impose his free-markets ideological mandate, is not unlike the journalistic tradition at The Economist and The Wall Street Journalā¦ neither of which are exactly pro-Trump mouthpieces.
Dylan Byers
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March 8, 2025
How Shipley Hit the Fan
Jeff Bezos had been losing patience with The Washington Postās liberal predilection long before he mandated a purely pro-markets Opinion section, and even before endorsement-gate. In fact, the tensions that culminated in Opinion editor David Shipleyās resignation had been building for years.