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A Brave Nuzzi World

Between the Bravo-ready mess of the Nuzzi-Lizza imbroglio and Michael Wolff’s Epstein deference, it was a monumentally bad week for media ethics. As journalists, even principled ones, become increasingly central characters in the stories themselves, is this kind of spectacle an unavoidable component of a new media world order?

Olivia Nuzzi
Amid this star-crossed imbroglio, the media ethics knitting circle proffered an obvious and facile question: Should the political journalist who failed to disclose her love affair with a politician be getting the glossy Times profile, the Vanity Fair job, the book deal? The answer to that question, of course, was evident in their own prurient obsession with the whole saga. Photo: Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Vox Media
Dylan Byers
November 19, 2025

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The media business, as practitioners know, revolves around the usual performance metrics: customer acquisition costs and lifetime value, subscription growth and churn management, weighted advertising funnels and C.P.M.s, etcetera. Executives spend their days thinking about platform dependency, rights negotiations, licensing windows, and talent—the center of an attention economy driven by stars.