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Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (Wednesday is an Inner Circle exclusive)
Ace media reporter Dylan Byers brings readers into the C-suite as he chronicles the biggest stories in the industry: the future of cable news in the streaming era, the transformation of legacy publishers, the tech giants remaking the market, and all the egos involved. Also featuring a weekly dispatch from Puck’s crack streaming/media analyst, Julia Alexander.
THE LATEST ARTICLES
Dylan Byers
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December 3, 2025
The Nuzzicracker Ballet
The star-crossed saga of Olivia and Ryan continues its salacious, shameful pas de deux—ensnaring not just Vanity Fair’s new editor but further tainting journalism writ large. Even worse, it elides the real question: Why is a certain pathetic world hanging on every word of a jilted lover’s creepy account proffered without editorial oversight?
Dylan Byers
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November 26, 2025
Roman Holiday
The internet’s favorite food author finds herself at a familiar crossroads for writers who have become brands unto themselves: trying to balance scale, new ventures, and authenticity while keeping a loyal audience fed… in this case literally.
Dylan Byers
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November 21, 2025
Zaz’s Hollywood Endings
With the final bids for Warner Bros. Discovery under careful consideration, David Zaslav’s tenure as an ersatz Hollywood mogul may be coming to an end. Now, it’s all about the numbers, and which suitors have a glide path to regulatory approval. Just which sunset Zaz will ride into is anyone’s guess.
Dylan Byers
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November 19, 2025
A Brave Nuzzi World
Between the Bravo-ready mess of the Nuzzi-Lizza imbroglio and Michael Wolff’s Epstein deference, it was a monumentally bad week for media ethics. As journalists, even principled ones, become increasingly central characters in the stories themselves, is this kind of spectacle an unavoidable component of a new media world order?
Dylan Byers
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November 14, 2025
The RedBird Balloon
After a second bid to take over The Telegraph met a particularly British brand of resistance, RedBird Capital walked away from the whole ordeal. Now the 170-year-old paper is back to waiting for a Goldilocks buyer.
Dylan Byers
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November 12, 2025
The Bankoff Job
Jim Bankoff is considering a spinoff of Vox’s faster-growing podcast network from its legacy publishing business. While it makes economic sense-ish, what does it mean for the future of brands like SB Nation, The Verge, and… ‘New York?’
Dylan Byers
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November 7, 2025
Stan By Me
A handful of disgruntled employees confronted Stan Duncan, Condé Nast’s H.R. chief, about the company’s decision to shutter Teen Vogue. There was a video, of course, which captures either a noble moment of employee solidarity or a bunch of entitled staffers willfully unaware of Condé’s dwindling fortunes and the realities of the legacy media business. Either way, how far they’ve fallen.
Dylan Byers
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November 5, 2025
MS Doom
Spirits are uncharacteristically high at the post-spinoff MS NOW, but this is still a late-stage linear operation that’s shedding (mostly geriatric) viewers at a steady clip. Despite Versant’s money and Rebecca Kutler’s ambitions, is it just a matter of time before the realities of cable’s decline drag them under?
Dylan Byers
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October 31, 2025
The Bari Method
Bari Weiss walked into CBS News guns ablazin’, booking guests and shooting for the moon with on-air talent, most of whom are locked in multiyear contracts. Will her inexperience in TV be a real hindrance, or is it just what the sleepy Tiffany network needs?
Dylan Byers
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October 29, 2025
The Great Weiss Whale
Bari’s takeover of CBS News, and her direct line to David Ellison, is sending a clear message: This is Bari’s CBS now, layoffs and all. The big question is what talent she’ll get to join her. Anderson Cooper will be her first test.
