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While there’s no panic (yet), top managers from Axios to Insider to Semafor talk about how they’re processing a financial downturn—and if there are any silver linings among the darkening clouds. “There are times where volatility and change are good opportunities,” says BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti.

Whereas the Obama-era This Town now feels like “a comedy of manners,” Leibovich’s new book, Thank You for Your Servitude, pillories a party whose leaders remain (at least publicly) in the 45th president’s thrall. “I think they all respect the hell out of Liz Cheney on some very basic level,” he says.

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.”

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.”

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.

The deeply sourced journalist and podcast host has been splitting her time between the Times and New York magazine, which will be her full-time home.

The newsletter company is on a mission to disrupt the attention economy away from “cheap outrage and flame wars,” drawing in literati from Patti Smith to Salman Rushdie. But its refusal to engage with hate and disinformation means controversy is never far behind.

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.

Killed just three weeks after its launch, the streaming service is the first victim of the Discovery-WarnerMedia merger—and is spawning ill will inside CNN. Leaks about the platform’s numbers “caused anxiety and anger,” one source says, as the high-profile departures begin.

With dozens of reporters on the ground, from Christiane Amanpour to Anderson Cooper, CNN gets back to basics in the wake of leadership turmoil. “This is what we are there to do,” senior international correspondent Sam Kiley says.

As the Biden administration announces the U.S. will open its doors to refugees from Ukraine, those already here are navigating the disorienting hurdles of resettlement—and processing the horrors of war from afar. “This is all about one crazy man, Vladimir Putin.”

The prominent Russian journalist goes deep on what Kremlin insiders are thinking, and what Putin’s crushing of independent media really looks like.

“We’re sort of framing this as a plucky country slaying a dictatorship,” says author Peter Pomerantsev. “But Putin is this mad stalker trying to get revenge.”

The Late Show executive producer will be stepping into a network in flux, still blindsided by the ouster of its former leader, and heading into the final stretch of a merger that has left many wondering what’s next.

The chatter continues to circulate—what really went down with CNN’s leadership? And will someone like Josh Tyrangiel pick up the mantle? But for now the network’s reporters are back doing what they do best.

One reporter told WarnerMedia chief Jason Kilar during a tense meeting on Wednesday that she was fielding calls from congresspeople, including a member of the January 6 committee, “who felt devastated for our democracy” as a result of Zucker’s departure.

People inside CNN are “shell-shocked.” The channel now finds itself in unprecedented turmoil, months out from the expected close of the WarnerMedia–Discovery merger. “Why would you want to hand Discovery a scandal-ridden CNN?”