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Marion Maneker • August 11, 2024

Drahi’s Billion-Dollar Question

Caught between a slowing art market and $1.88 billion in debt, Sotheby’s owner finally landed the investment he needed to see his art world adventure through. What will he do with the money?
Dylan Byers • January 26, 2024
Lord Zucker’s Vassal Revolt
Even Jeff Zucker and his American partners may have underestimated the depth of the reaction in Britain to his proposed takeover of The Spectator and The Telegraph.
The public outcries continue over Jeff Zucker’s quest for two venerable center-right British news brands. Are they reasonable critiques about the potential influence of his Emirati partner, or just sanctimonious and Anglocentric rumblings about two properties in need of fresh ideas and (lots of) fresh cash?
Dylan Byers • November 29, 2023
Zucker in Deal Heat
Jeff Zucker speaks at the 2019 Mirror Awards at Cipriani 42nd Street on June 13, 2019 in New York City
The C.E.O. of RedBird IMI took a romp through London Town—holding court at the Berkeley, making bold declarations about editorial independence, meeting with associates, winning hearts and minds—to try to bring home the fund’s acquisition of The Telegraph.
Jeff Zucker, the former NBCUniversal C.E.O. and CNN president who is now C.E.O. of the Abu Dhabi-backed joint investment vehicle Redbird IMI.
Dylan Byers • November 24, 2023
Lord Zucker & the Great Telegraph Chase
Jeff Zucker, Gerry Cardinale, and Sheikh Mansour are spending $1.4 billion to take over The Telegraph, presumably introducing the business to the U.S. and making it the thinking person’s Daily Mail. Is it a brilliant move, or might it go the way of other recent legacy reboots?