Scoop @puck.news: Carol Leonnig, a 25-year veteran of The Washington Post, is leaving the paper and joining MSNBC.

The latest in the long and extensive exodus of Washington Post journalists under CEO Will Lewis.

The CNN Endgame The latest news regarding Zaz’s desire to spin out his cable assets, including CNN, raises all kinds of existential questions for the iconic news network as it prepares to walk the plank. Plus, news a...

Zaz’s desire to spin out his cable assets, including CNN, raises all kinds of existential questions for the iconic news network as it prepares to walk the plank.

Read @dylanbyers.bsky.social dispatch here:

Passing Redstones Facing a Trump lawsuit, massive debts, and a $400 million kill fee if the Skydance sale falls through, Shari Redstone has privately discussed settling with the president for as much as $20 million. In...

Facing a Trump lawsuit, massive debts, and a $400M kill fee if the Skydance sale falls through, Paramount’s Shari Redstone has privately discussed settling with Trump for as much as $20M. She’ll likely have to pay much more…

Puck’s @dylanbyers.bsky.social has the story:

The Righteous Redstone Amid Trump’s legal torture of CBS, Shari Redstone has played the role of a desperate seller eager to settle. But her annoyance over CBS News’s coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict seems to be real—and...

Amid Trump’s legal torture of CBS, Shari Redstone has played the role of a spineless placater. But her annoyance over CBS News’s coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict seems to be real—and so are her attempts to meddle with the newsroom’s independence.

From @dylanbyers.bsky.social

Graydon Carter joins Puck’s @dylanbyers.bsky.social on The Grill Room podcast for a candid conversation about the magazine industry's past, present, and future.

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MSNBC’s Jen Psaki joins Puck’s @dylanbyers.bsky.social Byers on The Grill Room podcast for a candid conversation about her next chapter: hosting the network’s forthcoming nightly show.

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Dude, Where’s My Carr? News and notes on F.C.C. chairman Brendan Carr’s legacy media blitzkrieg and the many meanings of “public interest.”

Inside F.C.C. chairman Brendan Carr’s latest Comcast threat and the fallout from his ongoing intimidation campaign against the news media.

From @dylanbyers.bsky.social

Dude, Where’s My Carr? News and notes on F.C.C. chairman Brendan Carr’s legacy media blitzkrieg and the many meanings of “public interest.”

NEW @puck.news: Dude, Where’s My Carr? News and notes on F.C.C. chairman Brendan Carr’s legacy media blitzkrieg and the many meanings of “public interest.” puck.news/brendan-carr...

CNBC’s Reign of Tariff NBCU’s soon-to-be-spun-off business news channel loves a financial crisis, and this week its ratings rose as markets tanked. But that doesn’t lessen the challenges it faces as it gets spun off from it...

NEW @puck.news: CNBC’s Reign of Tariff: NBCU’s soon-to-be-spun-off business news channel loves a financial crisis, and this week its ratings rose as markets tanked. But that doesn’t lessen the challenges it faces as it gets spun off from its parentco. puck.news/cnbc-ratings...

Tucker’s Last Stand Emma Tucker arrived at The Wall Street Journal a couple years ago to replace the complacency of the Matt Murray era, with a mandate to make a product that was feistier, less academic, totally data-dri...

Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker talks about her transformation of the paper, the delicate art of change management, and the future of the news business.

In conversation with Puck’s @dylanbyers.bsky.social

Til Jeff Do Us Part Bezos’s subscriber-alienating decision to impose his free-markets ideological mandate is not unlike the journalistic tradition at The Economist and The Wall Street Journal… neither of which are exactl...

Jeff Bezos’s “personal liberties and free markets” mandate for the WaPo’s Opinion section is not unlike the journalistic tradition at The Economist and The Wall Street Journal… neither of which are exactly pro-Trump mouthpieces.

From @dylanbyers.bsky.social

How Shipley Hit the Fan Jeff Bezos had been losing patience with The Washington Post’s liberal predilection long before he mandated a purely pro-markets Opinion section, and even before endorsement-gate. In fact, the tension...

Jeff Bezos had been losing patience with The Washington Post’s liberal predilection long before he mandated a purely pro-markets Opinion section, and even before endorsement-gate…

@dylanbyers.bsky.social has the inside story on Opinion editor David Shipley’s exit.

The Kiss of Jeff The latest news and notes from the ‘Post’ in-crowd and D.C. haut monde about Bezos’s intentions and opportunities.

“Many believed that Jeff Bezos was a modern version of Kay Graham—a role he quite capably cosplayed during the first Trump administration—until they realized he wasn’t.”

@dylanbyers.bsky.social analyzes Bezos’s refashioning of the Washington Post’s Opinion section.

Oppenheim’s Split Atoms Former NBC News president Noah Oppenheim discusses the headaches at his old haunt (and other industry pickles) as the television news business wades through a series of not-great options.

A candid discussion with Noah Oppenheim, the former NBC News president, about the headaches at his old haunt (and other industry pickles) as the TV news business wades through a series of not-great options.

From @dylanbyers.bsky.social

Scoop @PuckNews: Politico White House correspondent and WHCA President @EugeneDaniels2 is leaving Politico to join MSNBC, where he will co-host a weekend roundtable show.

Out of Fox to Give Blue chip companies that long shunned Fox News (or at least its more crackpot-friendly time slots) are quietly returning to the fold, leading the network to record-setting revenue. Is it the mainstrea...

Blue chip advertisers that long shunned Fox News are quietly coming back, leading the network to record-setting revenue. Is it the mainstreaming of Trump’s America, or an even broader cultural shift?

@dylanbyers.bsky.social explores:

Shari Shrugged Apparently, Shari Redstone has waited too long and stands to make too much on the sale of her declining family business to get tripped up in a journalistic ethics debate or public spat with the new pr...

“Alas, in business, realpolitik very often beats idealpolitik. Still, it’s possible to countenance the corporate pragmatism while also acknowledging that this is all really bad for the Fourth Estate.”

@dylanbyers.bsky.social on the likely Paramount-Trump settlement:

A Matter of Life & Jeff Yes, we’re all grossed out by billionaires and C.E.O.s genuflecting to the incoming president, even if much of it is cynical lip-service. But the agony and angst of it all has overly simplified a much...

“Yes, we’re all grossed out by billionaires and C.E.O.s genuflecting to the incoming president, even if much of it is cynical lip-service. But the agony and angst of it all has overly simplified a much more complex challenge…”

@dylanbyers.bsky.social digs in:

Los Angeles Is Burning Podcast Episode · The Powers That Be: Daily · 01/09/2025 · 30m

I valued listening to this episode from the perspective of a couple people who live in L.A.
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The Ghosts of The Washington Post’s Past News, notes, and H.R. updates on a series of significant fin de siècle leadership changes at Jeff Bezos’s constantly transmogrifying paper.

A look at the thickening trickle of well-known political reporters mulling exits from The Washington Post as Will Lewis continues his fraught reorganization of the newsroom. 

From @dylanbyers.bsky.social

Zaz’s CNN Situation Room The restructuring of WBD, designed to cleave the company’s declining cable assets from its studio and streaming business, has left CNN employees wondering where the network fits into the parentco’s fu...

The restructuring of Warner Bros. Discovery has left CNN insiders and execs wondering where the network fits into WBD’s future—or if it does at all.

@dylanbyers.bsky.social digs in:

Dylan Byers on How to Cover Trump 2.0 Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri · Episode

NEW pod with THE @dylanbyers.bsky.social on how the media industry is shapeshifting for Trump and how he thinks journalists should cover the second admin open.spotify.com/episode/12DO...

Troy Story Podcast Episode · The Grill Room · 12/06/2024 · 1h 6m

excellent interview:
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Alison Roman Chops It Up Podcast Episode · The Grill Room · 11/19/2024 · 1h 7m

🎙️ 🍸 NEW POD: Alison Roman on her journey from legacy media to entrepreneurship and why her defenestration from The New York Times turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Plus, Infatuation CEO Paul Needham…

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