CNN’s Regime Change, The Oracle’s Heir, a Streaming War Endgame

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon gallery of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Bill Cohan reveals some of the juiciest anecdotes in Rob Copeland’s new book about Ray Dalio’s Bridgwater, the world’s largest and most enigmatic hedge fund. Then he dissects Paramount Global’s surprising stock jump, before turning to Berkshire’s succession strategy.

Plus, below the fold: Matthew Belloni wonders whether David Zaslav’s Netflix gambit signals the end of the streaming wars. Dylan Byers mulls the CNN regime change, and zeroes in on the Murdoch baggage carried by the new C.E.O. of the Washington Post. Jonathan Handel reveals the hangup in the SAG-AFTRA negotiations. And on The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Jon Kelly discuss Condé’s economic headwinds, and hypothesize how much Disney will pay for Hulu.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

News and notes and the latest intrigue swirling around Wall Street: what’s in the Dalio book, Munger’s wisdom, and Shari’s choice.

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MATTHEW BELLONI

Is David Zaslav making a mistake by licensing so much top-shelf content to the industry’s 800 pound gorilla? Or has Netflix simply already won the streaming wars, and everyone else must simply attempt to ensure their own debt-servicing survival?

DYLAN BYERS

News and notes on the regime change at CNN and the Murdoch baggage following The Washington Post’s presumptive next C.E.O.

JONATHAN HANDEL

An inside look at the negotiations surrounding the A.I. issue and others that are preventing the SAG-AFTRA strike from (finally) coming to an end.