The social media company and the billionaire are locked in an escalating legal battle. They’re stuck with each other, and we’re stuck with them.

He failed to reveal Weinstein’s sexual predation for The New Yorker, though helped Ronan Farrow deliver the goods. Now—with the help of Bob Weinstein—Auletta adds fresh intrigue to the NBC drama while dissecting the disgraced producer’s life, his downfall, and the culture that enabled his abuse.

As fleece-clad billionaires—and newcomers like Bari Weiss—flock to Idaho this week, Sun Valley fixtures are buzzing about Netflix’s future, an Elon-led Twitter, and Disney’s power structure. But will plunging stocks and a cooling M&A market drive down the dealmaking? “There’s a cloud hanging over,” says Ken Auletta.

MSNBC has answered its Maddow succession question, with the former daytime cable host taking on the coveted—and highly competitive—9 p.m. slot four nights a week. “She’s certainly progressive,” says one source, “but she has a different voice, and maybe that brings in a different audience.”

Former Apprentice Piers Morgan and a slew of other New York Post and Wall Street Journal writers are urging their readers to ditch the Donald ahead of 2024. Says one Murdoch watcher, “Lachlan and Rupert are clearly signaling that they are open to a new generation.”

The former campaign manager’s firm has raked in $1.2 million off of the stolen-election claims, despite Stepien testifying that he had “stepp[ed] away” from Team Trump.

On Day 1 atop the masthead, the new executive editor talks social media controversies, digital transformation, and meeting the hyperpartisan political moment. “The idea that the Times is stuck in some 1980s paradigm of both-sides journalism,” he says, “is pretty factually false.”

The proceedings have somehow made Trump look worse than he already did, and as a reminder, we already knew he incited a violent insurrection.

Despite the trio’s best efforts to dodge prosecutors’ subpoenas, they’ll be sitting down with the New York attorney general starting July 15. 

One month in, the network chief is making programming tweaks—toning down partisanship, scaling back “Breaking News” banners—and heading to Capitol Hill, L.A., and London (along with a stop at Cannes). While fears of cutbacks loom, one source says “significant announcements” aren’t expected until the fall.

A flurry of Twitter flare-ups and Slack spats involving Post journalists, along with a controversial suspension, have upended the newsroom and are presenting a major test for executive editor Sally Buzbee, who urged staff Tuesday to “be constructive and collegial.”

We’re just spitballing here but maybe that time would be better spent investigating the mass shooting that occurred two weeks ago?

Before she became a household name for locking horns with Donald Trump, the NBC News correspondent faced the realities of what it meant to thrive on TV—and where her difficult relationship with her father, reporter Zoey Tur, fit in, as she details in an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, Rough Draft.

The ex-president spent the weekend lashing out at the prosecutor who is said to have “pretty good evidence of criminal intent.”

As journalists descend on Uvalde—as they did on Columbine, Newtown, and Parkland—some are questioning whether a more graphic approach is required to capture the reality of America’s gun violence epidemic. “It’s time,” suggests one industry leader, “to show what a slaughtered 7-year-old looks like.”

Nice little moneymaking operation the ex-president’s got going there.

“The reason this smells so bad is that there is all sorts of evidence he did not receive this on the merits.”

Musk, supposed defender of free speech, paid a woman $250,000 in a severance agreement to stay silent about how he allegedly tried to bribe her for sexual favors.

According to conservatives, the formula-shortage crisis isn’t worth urgently addressing.

The site’s prized investigations unit is disbanding and dropping its last bombshells—“a triumphal exit,” says the team’s editor—as a scaled-back news division narrows its search for an editor in chief.