Hello,
I can’t believe it’s already September. But as many of you know, it’s been a particularly newsy August, and my incredible colleagues produced some of the best work in our young company’s lifespan. Let me cheer you up with some of our top stories from the past month.
In August, Puck’s elite team of journalists detailed the $100 billion mystery at the center of the cascading Brin-Musk rivalry; revealed a blockbuster twist in the Brangelina-F.B.I. saga; prophesied the M&A deal of the century; examined the cap table behind Ben Shapiro’s MAGA lifestyle empire, and much more.
Take a look at what you may have missed.
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Theodore Schleifer (August 9, 2022)
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Bayshore, the family office at the center of Sergey Brin’s ongoing divorce, is a sprawling $100 billion entity with interests as disparate as Parkinson’s research, disaster relief, and superyacht management. Its real central interest, though, has been Sergey’s privacy—until now.
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Eriq Gardner (August 15, 2022)
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Federal agents drew up a statement laying out the case for arresting Pitt. But after meeting with an assistant U.S. attorney, they decided not to pursue criminal charges. Now Jolie is demanding to know more.
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Matthew Belloni (August 18, 2022)
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Since taking over WBD in April, David Zaslav has run the company like a cost-cutting vigilante… until it comes to an odd gangster movie project written by his Hamptons buddy, Nick Pileggi.
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William D. Cohan (August 3, 2022)
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Tom Rogers, the cable legend, envisions an ambitious and elegant hypothetical: What if Brian Roberts and David Zaslav cook up a merger to compete with Apple and Amazon?
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Tara Palmeri (August 18, 2022)
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New reporting on the drama enrapturing the West Wing, plus the latest round of Trump’s beef with Hannity, and Kyrsten Sinema’s rocky road ahead.
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Dylan Byers (August 10, 2022)
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How VandeHei, Allen, Schwartz & Co. remade media in a town that doesn’t like to remake anything. Plus the latest media schadenfreude enveloping Semafor.
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Julia Alexander (August 2, 2022)
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Richard Plepler has the surprise of the summer in Black Bird, but not because it is executive produced by the former HBO chief. It’s because the Apple TV+ show is so damn hard to find. Also: Notes on Hulu’s latest strategy.
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Tina Nguyen (August 24, 2022)
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Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing have gone from millennial alt-right content jockeys to full-blown influencers to, truly, mini-kingpins of a billion-dollar MAGA D.T.C. media business. Is the only thing that can stop them their own ambition?
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