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Dylan Byers

A veteran media reporter covering the business of entertainment, technology, and news media. Dylan previously worked at NBC News, CNN, and Politico and is now a senior correspondent at Puck.

THE LATEST ARTICLES
NEWSLETTERS
Karoline Leavitt
Dylan Byers • January 30, 2025
Boiler Room
News, notes, and observations on the superficial changes inside the Brady Room and the far more significant transformations under the hood within the D.C. media industrial complex.
Mark Thompson CNN
Dylan Byers • January 25, 2025
CNN After CNN
The contracting news network is finally leveling with staff that its future won’t look anything like its past. But Mark Thompson is still focused on where and how people consume news, without offering a vision for how CNN competes in a more crowded media landscape.
Mark Thompson
Dylan Byers • January 23, 2025
The Contracting News Network
With a defanged and fully demoralized staff, and a mandate from Mark Thompson to drop the #Resistance posturing, could the new year be any gloomier at the most trusted name in news? Layoffs are on the way…
MSNBC
Dylan Byers • January 16, 2025
Kingdom Kutler
Rebecca Kutler, Jeff Zucker’s onetime heir apparent at CNN, is now the big boss at MSNBC, where she’ll lead the company into the SpinCo wilderness—managing talent, decline, and anxieties along the way. And yet, she’s not only the best person for the job, but perhaps the only one who can do it.
jeff bezos
Dylan Byers • January 9, 2025
A Matter of Life & Jeff
Yes, we’re all grossed out by billionaires and C.E.O.s genuflecting to the incoming president, even if much of it is cynical lip-service. But the agony and angst of it all has overly simplified a much more complex challenge.
John Harris
Dylan Byers • January 3, 2025
Politico, Brother, Where Art Thou?
More news and notes on the traditional inter-administration employment musical chairs within the D.C. media scene.
will lewis
Dylan Byers • December 27, 2024
The Ghosts of The Washington Post’s Past
News, notes, and H.R. updates on a series of significant fin de siècle leadership changes at Jeff Bezos’s constantly transmogrifying paper.
Matt Murray could be named the top editor of the washington post.
Dylan Byers • December 20, 2024
And Then There Was Matt…
After six excruciating months, Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis is naming acting executive editor Matt Murray as his new editorial leader—a fitting capstone to a lackluster search effort that never quite came to fruition.
George Stephanopoulos
Dylan Byers • December 19, 2024
Stephanopoulos’s Renewal & Will’s Plan B
News and notes on the most pressing topics at the intersection of the D.C. media axes of intrigue: Stephanopoulos’s sloppy electronics, and Washington Post top editor contingency planning.
david zaslav
Dylan Byers • December 14, 2024
Zaz’s CNN Situation Room
The restructuring of Warner Bros. Discovery, designed to cleave the company’s declining cable assets from its studio and streaming business, has left CNN insiders and executives wondering where the network fits into WBD’s future—or if it does at all.
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