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Cesar Conde
Dylan Byers • April 10, 2024

Cesar Salad

Weeks after the McDaniel micro-nightmare, a peek into the halls of 30 Rock, where talent and executives are trying to put the incident behind them while continuing to grumble and privately rehash questions about accountability.
Dylan Byers • March 29, 2024
Cesar’s Palace
Cesar Conde
In the aftermath of the Ronna McDaniel hiring-and-firing scandal, the NBC News Group blame game has begun to point back toward chairman Cesar Conde, his hands-off leadership style, and his very transparent ambitions.
Dylan Byers • March 27, 2024
Ronnaghazi & The Hunger Screams of Late-Stage Linear
ronna mcdaniel
Inside 30 Rock, the dueling narratives over the lengthy courtship and rapid firing of the 2020 election-denying former R.N.C. chair highlight a behind-the-scenes blame game over the network’s conflicted vision of political diversity, and itself.
Ronna McDaniel
Dylan Byers • March 22, 2024
Ronna Maddow
In her post-R.N.C. reality, Ronna McDaniel will take her talents to NBC News for a post-peak cable contract that reflects both the stain of Trump and the humbling of the industry itself.
Dafna Linzer stepped down as Politico’s executive editor.
Dylan Byers • March 10, 2023
Dafna Punk
The fast and mysterious departure of Politico’s executive editor may have been neither fast nor mysterious.
Chuck Todd
Dylan Byers • May 18, 2022
The Tao of Chuck Todd
Can an anchor cut from the Russertian mold re-reinvent a historic franchise as a modern media brand? And is NBC betting on the future for Meet the Press or merely paying a “talent management tax” to fund Todd’s vision?
Dafna Linzer
Dylan Byers • March 23, 2022
Politico’s New Administration Is Taking Office
Fifteen years after it broke onto the scene in an unmistakably disruptive manner, re-defining the stodgy news business with its metabolic frisky style and scoop-bazooka, Politico seems intent on entering its own Washington sinecure of sorts—as the pendulum swings, in the words of one founder, towards institutionalism in D.C. Will its new newsroom leader commensurately facilitate the anti-disruption disruption?