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Mark Thompson, then CEO of the New York Times (NYT) speaks at the digital fair dmexco in Cologne, Germany, in 2017.
Dylan Byers • December 1, 2023

The Mark Thompson Plan

CNN’s new boss has been working on a 2024 business plan that will restructure the network around a multiplatform philosophy. The plan, which will go into effect next quarter, will move significantly more resources into CNN’s digital efforts.
Dylan Byers • November 29, 2023
Zucker in Deal Heat
Jeff Zucker speaks at the 2019 Mirror Awards at Cipriani 42nd Street on June 13, 2019 in New York City
The C.E.O. of RedBird IMI took a romp through London Town—holding court at the Berkeley, making bold declarations about editorial independence, meeting with associates, winning hearts and minds—to try to bring home the fund’s acquisition of The Telegraph.
Dylan Byers • November 24, 2023
Lord Zucker & the Great Telegraph Chase
Jeff Zucker, the former NBCUniversal C.E.O. and CNN president who is now C.E.O. of the Abu Dhabi-backed joint investment vehicle Redbird IMI.
Jeff Zucker, Gerry Cardinale, and Sheikh Mansour are spending $1.4 billion to take over The Telegraph, presumably introducing the business to the U.S. and making it the thinking person’s Daily Mail. Is it a brilliant move, or might it go the way of other recent legacy reboots?
Fairly or unfairly, David Zaslav has become a convenient caricature for the various pitfalls of legacy media businesses.
Dylan Byers • November 15, 2023
Zaz Lit 101 & Roger “The Grinch” Lynch
News and notes from around the media industry before everyone begins to disappear for the holidays.
Some Univision journliasts saw the Trump interview as glaring evidence of a broader effort by their new parent company—which has close ties to Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—to curry favor with the former president.
Dylan Byers • November 10, 2023
The Kushner Connection
A softball interview with Trump is unnerving staff inside Univision, and inside the White House, as the formerly left-leaning Spanish-language network—now under new leadership, and with surprising new Republican allies—undergoes a dramatic pivot to the right.
Sally Buzbee, the Post’s executive editor who took over for Marty Baron in 2021.
Dylan Byers • November 8, 2023
When Will Met Sally
News and notes on Will Lewis’s maiden voyage at the Post and Kevin Mayer’s return to the podium.