Shari’s Choice, Zaslav’s CNN & Hollywood’s Russia Problem

Shari Redstone and Bob Bakish
Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty
Matthew Belloni
&
William D. Cohan
March 6, 2022

It’s been a dramatic couple of weeks in the entertainment and media sphere as the soon-to-be Warner Bros. Discovery grappled with an abrupt leadership change atop CNN, ViacomCBS rebranded as Paramount Global, and Netflix and the other Hollywood studios pulled out of Russia amid Vladimir Putin’s escalating war on Ukraine. Puck founding partners Matthew Belloni and William D. Cohan break down what it all means for Wall Street and the future of entertainment in the post-Covid, post-streaming, post-everything era.