Dafna Punk, Mad Dawg’s Revenge, Media Monday

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon dispatch featuring the latest reporting from Puck.

Today, we start with Bill Cohan’s unmissable and incisive look at the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. How did this happen, who is to blame, and what aftershocks are on the way?

Then, below the fold: Dylan Byers explores the quasi-mysterious departure of Politico’s executive editor Dafna Linzer. And on The Powers That Be, Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby chew over a new D.C. media start-up, and recap Puck’s First Amendment party at the French Ambassador’s residence in Kalorama.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

Assessing the reality of an historic 48 hours on Wall Street.

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DYLAN BYERS

The fast and mysterious departure of Politico’s executive editor may have been neither fast nor mysterious.

PETER HAMBY & JON KELLY

Jon Kelly joins Peter Hamby to discuss Puck’s big night in Washington before turning their attention to a new media start-up from Jimmy Finkelstein and Richard “Mad Dawg” Beckman.

MATTHEW BELLONI

Puck’s second annual, totally subjective and partially grievance-based salute to the oddities and embarrassments of Hollywood’s interminable Oscar season.