DGA’s Wet Ink, Requiem for Chamath, CNN’s New Era

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon roundup of Puck’s latest reporting. A quick reminder that we’re co-hosting a screening of A Small Light—a powerful WWII limited series—with National Geographic next Monday in Los Angeles. It’s a subscriber-only event, so sign up here and email [email protected] to register.

Today, we lead with Dylan Byers’ inside look at a nightmarish 48 hours for CNN’s Chris Licht, from the installment of Zaz lieutenant Dave Leavy to the brutal Tim Alberta dissertation in The Atlantic. Is the worst over for the C.E.O.?

Then, below the fold: Jonathan Handel dissects the new DGA deal, and considers its impact on the writers’ strike. Bill Cohan unwinds the “Dimon for President” hype, sticks a fork in the SPAC era, and spotlights the true players behind Salesforce’s Q1 turnaround. And on The Powers That Be, Dylan and Jon Kelly circle back to the double-barreled headache at CNN.

DYLAN BYERS

It’s been a nightmarish 48 hours at CNN: first, Zaslav’s lieutenant Dave Leavy was brought in as C.O.O., marginalizing Chris Licht’s authority; then came that brutal Tim Alberta dissertation in The Atlantic. Hudson Yards is alight with fresh agony. But is the worst over?

JONATHAN HANDEL

The devil’s in the details as the DGA makes a quick (and probably not “historic”) three-year contract, the actors weigh a walkout and the writers strike presses on.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

News and notes about the inside chatter percolating around the Core Club set.

TINA NGUYEN

Sure, the right-wing House insurgency was pissed that their Speaker backed off some of his promises and (quelle horreur!) cut a deal with the Democrats to save the economy. But they decided not to defenestrate him. At least not yet.