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Tony Dokoupil
Dylan Byers October 9, 2024
Inside the totally predictable, somewhat absurd, and quasi-tragic fallout from Tony Dokoupil’s aggressive questioning of Ta-Nehisi Coates, the furious response inside CBS News, and the latest round of navel-gazing media existentialism.
Robin Roberts George Stephanopoulos
Dylan Byers October 4, 2024
The industry-wide resetting of TV news contracts is now firmly underway, it seems, and most talent will be affected—at best by a smaller-than-anticipated cost-of-living raise, often by a pay cut, and, at worst, by a delicately choreographed defenestration.
brian williams
Dylan Byers October 3, 2024
Brian Williams’ latest return to television—well, to streaming—is not only a first step toward a possible career revival, but also a potential harbinger of the future of cable news.
hoda kotb
Dylan Byers September 28, 2024
Yes, Hoda Kotb deserves to ring in her seventh decade by sleeping in past 4 a.m. But the truth is that the star left her cushy $20 million-plus per year deal only after NBC proposed a pay cut. “This is the age of the great resetting of TV news contracts,” one veteran media executive told me. “Everyone is getting their pay cut or their jobs eliminated.”


olivia nuzzi
Dylan Byers September 26, 2024
The latest news and notes on the depressing media plot consuming the political-media class: the Olivia Nuzzi-R.F.K. Jr.-Ryan Lizza demure selfie lust triangle.
Olivia Nuzzi
Dylan Byers September 21, 2024
News and notes on one of the more implausible and totally depressing political-media sagas in modern memory. Plus, the Tyrangiel non-news at CNN.
Adrian Wojnarowski
Dylan Byers September 19, 2024
It seemed implausible that Adrian Wojnarowski would leave more than $20 million on the table for the prospect of unlimited family time and his sanity—this is television, after all! But the craziest part of this story may be that there is no crazy part, after all.
david zaslav
Dylan Byers September 13, 2024
David Zaslav may be trumpeting a face-saving deal with Charter, but the forthcoming face-off with Comcast isn’t going to be any easier.


mark thompson
Dylan Byers September 7, 2024
A year after Mark Thompson took over, he’s finally on the verge of revealing the first signs, such as they are, of his master plan.
Brian Stelter
Dylan Byers September 5, 2024
The backstory on Brian Stelter’s return, and the real drama inside CNN: the potential arrival of former wunderkind Josh Tyrangiel.
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