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MEDIA July 12, 2023
Andreessen’s weird screed, the Iger news ricochet, and all the intrigue and high school cliques.
ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro.
MEDIA July 5, 2023
Yes, everyone knows that ESPN has been quietly downsizing for years, but the recent talent purge highlights the growing anxiety around the business’s transformation. And yet many in the industry fear the worst is yet to come.
MEDIA June 28, 2023
Life inside the Fox News bunker, the Watters-Hannity-Gutfeld Cerberus, and news on Tucker Carlson’s new media ambitions.
A CNN sale could be a bonanza for Zaz and for WBD, his publicly traded leveraged buyout, which has some $45 billion of net debt.
MEDIA June 23, 2023
As the Allen & Co. conference beckons, and CNN remains leaderless, bankers and executives are wondering if Zaz is ready to seriously consider selling the network in order to service WBD’s debt and excite the equity market (and probably avoid a headache or two). And, if not now, when?


Following the Dominion suit and Tucker’s exit from Fox, Baier’s journalistic bona fides now seem more valuable than ever.
MEDIA June 21, 2023
Baier’s surprisingly punchy Trump interview has briefly elevated his stature at the precise moment when Fox News is more insecure than ever. Now it looks like he’s in for a tidy little raise.
Rashida Jones, President of MSNBC.
MEDIA June 16, 2023
News and notes from the cable news industry in the wake of indictments, defenestration, deplatforming, anxiety, and linear decline agita.
MEDIA June 14, 2023
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.
MEDIA June 9, 2023
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
MEDIA June 7, 2023
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.
MEDIA June 2, 2023
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?
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