DeSantis’s Alphabet Soup, Music Business Madness, Hollywood Power Rankings

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon compilation of the latest reporting from Puck.

Today, we lead with Lauren Sherman’s inside analysis of Edward Enninful’s putative promotion at British Vogue, as he moves from editor in chief to “editorial advisor." Why did he really leave—and who will take his place?

Then, below the fold: Tina Nguyen mulls DeSantis’s surprising Iowa strategy, and narrates Elon’s flailing effort to build a right-wing content utopia. Eriq Gardner chronicles a legal kerfuffle in the music business. On The Powers That Be, Lauren and Peter Hamby dig into the murky economics of celebrity stylists. And on The Town, Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw parse the first half of 2023 in Hollywood, crowning under-discussed winners and losers across the industry.

LAUREN SHERMAN

Edward Enninful’s “promotion” to an advisorship at British Vogue completes Condé Nast’s long-labored aim of global consolidation. It also ends an era and ensures that Anna Wintour will be the universe’s last real glossy editor-in-chief.

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TINA NGUYEN

Thoughts, reflections, and fresh reporting on a couple right wing media scandals.

ERIQ GARDNER

The song industry successfully lobbied the Trump administration to topple the judicial regime that determined its fees. Now comes the blowback.

PETER HAMBY & LAUREN SHERMAN

Lauren Sherman joins Peter to dissect the exit of Edward Enninful from British Vogue and the power struggles inside Condé Nast as Anna Wintour consolidates power yet again. Then they dig into the murky economics of celebrity stylists in Hollywood.