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Dasha Burns
Dylan Byers December 12, 2024
News and notes on the recruitment of Dasha Burns, raided from the increasingly gloomy halls of 30 Rock, as Politico seeks their new Maggie. Plus the latest updates on Jeff Bezos’s narrowing talent search for a “change agent” to transform The Washington Post.
Rashida Jones
Dylan Byers December 5, 2024
News and notes on the yuletide fixations of legacy media and its stalwarts as corporate holiday party season beckons: Rashida Jones’ impending MSNBC exit, SpinCo spin, and the denouement of the Washington Post (first newsroom!) executive editor sweepstakes.
Jeremy Boreing
Dylan Byers November 29, 2024
News, notes, frontline observations, and confessions from a smattering of new-media-age entrepreneurs, all of whom have much to be thankful for this time of year. (And some gripes too…)
Rachel Maddow
Dylan Byers November 23, 2024
News and notes on the latest anxieties inside MSNBC in its SpinCo singularity: questions about the Maddow deal, looming Stamford realities, and much more.


Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski
Dylan Byers November 21, 2024
News and notes on the real ulterior motive behind the Mar-a-Lago pilgrimage. Plus, all the nail-biting and agita unleashed at 30 Rock in the wake of the Comcast spinco news.
Mark Thompson
Dylan Byers November 15, 2024
A gloomy company-wide meeting revealed Mark Thompson’s CNN is still caught between the linear past and the digital future, and nonpolitical news versus 24-hour Trump TV. Insiders wonder who’s paying attention to the content while others wonder if a more sinister fate beckons.
Chris Wallace
Dylan Byers November 14, 2024
The backstory of Wallace’s self-defenestration at CNN—the latest shoe to drop in an era that won’t stop ending.
mark thompson
Dylan Byers November 8, 2024
With the election in the rearview, C.E.O. Mark Thompson will finally implement his true transformation plan at the network—including the culling of hundreds of jobs. Many of CNN’s own journalists, plenty of whom were blinded by Trump’s significant victory, have evinced similar naiveté about their own fates.


Donald Trump reporters
Dylan Byers November 7, 2024
With Trump 2.0 upon us, a number of D.C. media people are cautiously wondering if the highly lucrative, gung-ho cri de coeur, green-room-and-book-deal #resistance marketplace of his last term will return to town with the 47th president. Alas, Trump may not have changed, but the industry sure has.
cesar conde
Dylan Byers November 1, 2024
Inside 30 Rock, word that Comcast is considering spinning out NBCU’s lesser cable assets—potentially severing MSNBC from NBC—has kicked off a furious sequence of questions about the future of both networks, and about the fate of NBC News Group boss Cesar Conde.
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