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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.

Mark Thompson
New CNN chief Mark Thompson in 2008. Until Thompson articulates his brave new business plan, the staff will be plodding forth, into 2024, without a framework for ameliorating the network’s ratings and reputational nadir. Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
December 28, 2023

The year 2024, now just over the horizon, already seems brimming with uncertainty in virtually every theater: pivotal wars abroad, a highly consequential presidential election at home, the specter of life-reorienting and economy-uprooting A.I. everywhere, etcetera, etcetera. Much is at stake in the media business, obviously, as the industry lumbers toward further consolidation while struggling to keep pace with digital transformation and shifting business models.