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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
Dylan Byers • June 14, 2023
A Tale of Two Fred Ryans
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.
Dylan Byers • June 9, 2023
In the Afterlicht
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
Dylan Byers • June 7, 2023
Licht’s Out
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.
Dylan Byers • June 2, 2023
Zaz Brings in the Pain Sponge
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.
Dylan Byers • June 1, 2023
The Old Men and the C-List
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.
Dylan Byers • May 24, 2023
Bezos at Sea, The Kaitlan Experiment & Murdoch Succession Fantasies
Insights and observations on what the chattering classes are chatting about in advance of the holiday weekend.
jimmy pitaro
Dylan Byers • May 19, 2023
ESPN’s Brave New World
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.”
Dylan Byers • May 18, 2023
When It Rains, It Amanpours
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.
Dylan Byers • May 12, 2023
Licht’s Dispassion Punch
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.
Dylan Byers • May 10, 2023
The Kaitlan Era Begins Tonight
Kaitlan is Licht’s answer at 9 p.m.—the great conservative hope upon which his legacy will likely hang.
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