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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
CNN's Jake Tapper.
Dylan Byers • September 23, 2022
Leave It to Tapper
The temporary nature of Tapper’s move to 9 p.m. masks the careful machinations behind the announcement: Licht wants Tapper to be the permanent host of the 9 p.m. hour, and the face of his CNN.
Post Publisher Fred Ryan and owner Jeff Bezos.
Dylan Byers • September 21, 2022
The WaPo’s Post-Trump Blues Continue
During the Trump years, the fantastic owner-editor Bezos-Baron package stripped the Post of its Politico-purge complacency and vied to make it the true national paper of record. So what happens now?
Paramount's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner After Party
Dylan Byers • September 16, 2022
When Life Gives You Lemon…
CNN’s new morning show concept, led by Don Lemon with Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins, is a “mass appeal play” aligned with Chris Licht’s less-partisan strategy (while conveniently nudging Brianna Keilar off center stage). It also evidences the hard new reality for linear media: In a post-Maddow, post-Cuomo world, it’s no longer all about primetime.
Jim VandeHei, the co-founder and CEO of Axios and co-founder of Politico.
Dylan Byers • September 14, 2022
VandeHei in the Arena
Weeks after Axios’s $525 million sale, Washington’s most influential media C.E.O. recalls some lessons from the Politico era and Axios’s ascent. And then offers some advice for the next generation of D.C. disruptors, like Punchbowl and Semafor.
Ben Smith
Dylan Byers • September 9, 2022
Semafor Is Almost Ready for Prime Time
Some Friday notes on the hottest topics in our media industry: Semafor, The Washington Post, and the Today show.
Brianna Keilar
Dylan Byers • September 8, 2022
Licht’s Teacher’s Pet Syndrome
After Stelter’s ouster and the Harwood sunset, many in CNN wonder if Brianna Keilar is modulating her tone to satisfy the boss.
Chuck Todd
Dylan Byers • September 2, 2022
The September of Stelteritis
Various and numerous personnel changes across the network landscape, from Reliable Sources to Meet the Press, all point toward a single cruel reality: the industry can’t program its ways out of the apparent and very real Linear Big Bang. It’s here.
Brian Stelter
Dylan Byers • August 31, 2022
Stelter’s Silence of the Lambs
More details on the Stelter sacrifice and the aftershock at CNN.
Dylan Byers • August 18, 2022
The Brian Stelter Show Is Over
Brian Stelter, the CNN host and inveterate newsletter O.G. and perceived Jeff Zucker mini-me, is the latest casualty of the Licht era. His undeniably successful tenure is a powerful metaphor for the media industry’s past, present, and future.
Dylan Byers & Julia Alexander • August 17, 2022
Chapek Second-Guessing & Zaz Whispers
The inside conversation in Hollywood and on Wall Street, about Warners’ synergies, HBO layoffs, and the activist investor putting Disney on notice.
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