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.

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:

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:

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. Listen here: puck.news/podcast_epis...

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. Listen here: puck.news/podcast_epis...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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.

“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.

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.

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:

“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:

“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:

I valued listening to this episode from the perspective of a couple people who live in L.A. @peterhamby.bsky.social @dylanbyers.bsky.social @puck.news podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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

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:

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...

excellent interview: Troy Young on @dylanbyers.bsky.social 🎙️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #journalism #media #cablenews #content @puck.news

@dylanbyers.bsky.social is here, but not really posting yet.

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