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Washington Post

Dasha Burns

Mrs. Burns Goes to Washington

News and notes on the recruitment of Dasha Burns, raided from the increasingly gloomy halls of 30 Rock, as Politico seeks their new Maggie. Plus the latest updates on Jeff Bezos’s narrowing talent search for a “change agent” to transform The Washington Post.
Dylan Byers • December 12, 2024
Dylan Byers • December 5, 2024
Rashida Revisionism & Will’s Editor-Hunting
Rashida Jones
News and notes on the yuletide fixations of legacy media and its stalwarts as corporate holiday party season beckons: Rashida Jones’ impending MSNBC exit, SpinCo spin, and the denouement of the Washington Post (first newsroom!) executive editor sweepstakes.
Dylan Byers • November 7, 2024
The #Resistance Is Futile
Donald Trump reporters
With Trump 2.0 upon us, a number of D.C. media people are cautiously wondering if the highly lucrative, gung-ho cri de coeur, green-room-and-book-deal #resistance marketplace of his last term will return to town with the 47th president. Alas, Trump may not have changed, but the industry sure has.
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Dylan Byers • October 31, 2024
Bezos’s Inferno
The latest news, notes, and hunger cries from within The Washington Post, which finds itself embroiled in a largely predictable self-immolation of its own design—the latest scandal produced by an owner, management team, and rank-and-file that appear to operate a little too comfortably in opposition to one another.
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Dylan Byers • October 26, 2024
Washington on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The decisions by Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong to spike endorsements of Kamala Harris have created an uproar inside The Washington Post and LA Times, respectively. Is this a genuine gripe, an assault on democracy, or simply the latest grievance consuming a legacy media industry mad as hell and unwilling to take it any longer?
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Dylan Byers • August 2, 2024
A Time to Will
Having survived a multifront newsroom fracas, Will Lewis endured another couple of love taps this week about his ongoing credibility challenges—one from Folkenflik, another from the Times. Now he faces an even thornier question: With the worst presumably behind him, how will he lead The Washington Post into the future?
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Dylan Byers • June 28, 2024
‘Post’ Script & CNN’s Debate Hangover
News and notes on the two biggest stories in Washington media: the latest beats in the WaPo crisis and the post-mortem on CNN’s big night in Atlanta.
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Dylan Byers • June 26, 2024
Wet Hot British Summer
News and notes on America’s two most-discussed British media executives: Mark Thompson, who is gearing up for Thursday’s debate; and Will Lewis, who is holding on for dear life on K Street.
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William D. Cohan • June 26, 2024
Bezos’ Rubber Room & Shari’s Plan B
News and notes on the dual obsessions of the Sconset set: whether Shari will reconsider the private equity pill and break up Paramount; and how Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis may be taking a page from Wall Street’s layoff playbook with their plan for a “third newsroom” at The Washington Post.
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Dylan Byers • June 22, 2024
Inside the Post Coup
The Buzbee smoke bomb wasn’t the only attempt to defenestrate embattled Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis. Earlier this month, journalists on the foreign desk discussed a plan to dig for unflattering information on their new publisher and editor—a new ethical wrinkle in a scandal ostensibly about journalistic principles.