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Jeff Zucker

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Dylan Byers • May 10, 2024

The Zucker Savior Myth

The endurance of the “Will Jeff buy CNN?” fantasy, which was stoked again this week, highlights the uncertain state of the media industry, and a few enduring truths about Zucker, too. He may have reinvented himself as an investor, but he remains an operator at heart. And, if given the opportunity, he’d probably be back in the control room in a heartbeat.
William D. Cohan • March 20, 2024
Lord Zucker’s M&A Do-Over & Trump Bankruptcy Options
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News and notes on two intoxicating bankruptcy restructurings: Jeff Zucker’s latest gambit to claw the Telegraph and Spectator away from the Barclays, despite the punctilious British regulators; and Trump’s high-stakes lawn sale.
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?
Mark Thompson
Dylan Byers • January 19, 2024
After the Thompson Manifesto
A spirited and polite disagreement evinces CNN’s new lay of the land, old anxieties, and the latest power dynamics.
Mark Thompson
Dylan Byers • December 27, 2023
Zaz’s Whale, Zucker’s Chase & The British Guys
As the year ends, a talmudic reading of the four most consequential plotlines bewitching the media industry as it enters 2024.
David Zaslav
Dylan Byers • December 6, 2023
A Very Zaz X-mas
News and notes on the media amid the season of yuletide gossip: WBD theories, CNN hypotheticals, and more Zuckerology.
Ari Emanuel and Silver Lake are managing the consequences of publicly mulling a sale of Endeavor, and are now trying to keep everything buttoned up as the market waits and salivates.
William D. Cohan • December 6, 2023
Ari’s Deal & Zucker’s Next Steps
News and notes from the biggest deals in the media M&A landscape: Ari Emanuel’s purported take-private and Jeff Zucker’s Telegraph/Spectator play.
The nascent Bob Iger-Nelson Peltz proxy war is gearing up to be far more feisty than their first encounter almost a year ago.
William D. Cohan • December 3, 2023
Iger-Peltz Vulcan Chess, Zucker’s Thesis & Elon EBITDA
News and notes on the three biggest stories at the intersection of media and finance: some micro-updates on Zucker’s Telegraph bid, Elon’s debt gamble, and the latest round of Iger versus Peltz.
Jeff Zucker speaks at the 2019 Mirror Awards at Cipriani 42nd Street on June 13, 2019 in New York City
Dylan Byers • November 29, 2023
Zucker in Deal Heat
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.
Not only would a Jeff Zucker deal potentially kill the auction for the publications, it might also allow RedBird IMI to get the assets more cheaply than if they were bid up in a formal process.
William D. Cohan • November 29, 2023
Zucker’s Structure Wrinkle & OpenAI Open Questions
News and notes emanating from the finance-media-tech vortex: insights into Jeff Zucker and RedBird IMI’s debt-for-equity Telegraph offer and Microsoft’s governance peccadilloes.