New: Washington Post Opinion editor Adam O’Neal is leaving, he announced in an internal memo Friday
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Natalie Korach
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Scoop: HuffPost staff grilled leadership in a tense all-hands Wednesday, as Byron Allen has yet to address employees about layoffs that eliminated more than 1/3 of BuzzFeed’s workforce "Morale and trust for many folks is in hell," one staffer told me www.status.news/p/buzzfeed-h...
Byron's HuffPost HatchetInside HuffPost’s tense post-layoff town hall on Wednesday, shaken staffers demanded answers about the cuts and questioned Byron Allen’s vision for the BuzzFeed-owned newsroom, Status has learned.www.status.newsNick Bilton and Bari Weiss are racing to rebuild 60 Minutes, conducting dozens of screen tests and working to fill out the roster after the departure of four correspondents New from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
The Race to Rebuild ‘60 Minutes’With the fall season fast approaching, Nick Bilton and Bari Weiss are racing to rebuild the newsmagazine, holding screen tests featuring mock Ghislaine Maxwell interviews and hunting for new senior le...www.status.newsFollowing Paramount’s agreement to pause its merger with Warner Bros., I asked 8 antitrust experts to weigh in on how this saga will end Not sure it got me any closer to an answer but the responses are worth a read www.status.news/p/paramount-...
Parsing Paramount's PauseIn a Status roundtable, eight antitrust experts assess the mounting costs, legal risks, and ultimate prospects of Paramount's blockbuster Warner Bros. Discovery deal.www.status.news“This is the largest gathering of people with Trump derangement syndrome” Trump said during the WHCD re-do last night, where he demeaned journalists publicly as they celebrated the First Amendment New from @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/the-white-...
The White House Correspondents’ DisgraceThe WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.www.status.newsInside this week’s ESPN layoffs Ryan Clark's leaked exit threw Tuesday's planned cuts into chaos, with executives scrambling to notify employees before they found out from media reports www.status.news/p/espn-layof...
ESPN's Messy Roster ShakeupThe cuts at the Disney-owned network exposed mounting tensions inside its Bristol headquarters, Status has learned, with network management scrambling to notify talent and staffers of their fate as ne...www.status.newsCNN’s Clarissa Ward only inked a one-year extension with the network this spring amid friction with execs and concerns over Bari Weiss potentially taking control of CNN @oliverdarcy.bsky.social scoops www.status.news/p/clarissa-w...
Clarissa Ward’s CNN CrossroadsThe star foreign correspondent could not reach a long-term deal with CNN earlier this year amid friction with executives and concerns over Bari Weiss potentially taking editorial control of the networ...www.status.newsNew: For the second year in a row, Axel Springer chief Mathias Döpfner approached Bari Weiss in Sun Valley with an offer This time, Weiss accepted, agreeing to attend the German publisher’s upcoming awards ceremony in Berlin, honoring none other than Peter Thiel www.status.news/p/peter-thie...
Döpfner and Bari’s Toast to ThielBy awarding MAGA billionaire Peter Thiel its highest-profile honor, Axel Springer is providing one of the clearest signals yet of the publisher’s rightward evolution under Mathias Döpfner.www.status.newsScoop: MS NOW marked its 30th anniversary with an all-staff town hall detailing its forthcoming subscription product and a private dinner convening generations of network leadership, including Andy Lack, Phil Griffin, Jeff Zucker, Rebecca Kutler, and more www.status.news/p/ms-now-30-...
MS NOW’s Pivotal MomentAt a swanky dinner in lower Manhattan, MS NOW united its past and present leaders to celebrate the network's 30-year anniversary, Status has learned. But as the network enters a new decade, its bigges...www.status.newsNew: NYT brass have been in close contact with the reporters targeted by federal prosecutors, preparing for a major legal fight with the Trump admin "They have the full weight of The Times, and each of us, behind them," CEO Meredith Kopit Levien wrote www.status.news/p/new-york-t...
The Times’ Subpoena ShowdownBehind the scenes, Status has learned, top New York Times executives have been in close contact with five reporters targeted by federal prosecutors, preparing the newsroom for a high-stakes fight over...www.status.newsScoop: The rescheduled WHCD, now confirmed for the Waldorf Astoria, is getting a dramatic security overhaul Status obtained a memo from Weijia Jiang outlining the new protocols for the scaled-down event Don’t worry, Oz Pearlman is still on the program www.status.news/p/whcd-corre...
The WHCD Do-Over PlanThree months after gunfire upended Washington's biggest media event, the White House Correspondents’ Association is bringing it back in a dramatically different form, Status has learned.www.status.newsAs Allen & Co.'s annual conference gets underway, Mathias Döpfner returns to Sun Valley with the Telegraph deal behind him Last year in Idaho, the Axel Springer chief offered Bari Weiss $120 million for the Free Press before losing out to David Ellison www.status.news/p/mathias-do...
Döpfner's $120 million swing at Bari Weiss // Döpfner's Sun Valley ambitionsAs media moguls descend on Sun Valley, Status has learned that the Axel Springer chief had approached Bari Weiss with a nine-figure offer at the last billionaire retreat.www.status.newsOver a year after trying to buy InfoWars, The Onion hasn't given up despite legal setbacks I caught up with @bencollins.bsky.social on why it launched a parody anyway, what it's borrowing from the Alex Jones playbook, and plans for "total world domination" www.status.news/p/infowars-t...
Winning The InfoWarsThe Onion chief Ben Collins spoke to Status about its InfoWars takeover, reaction from Alex Jones’ followers, and plans for “total world domination.”www.status.newsNew: This spring, Olivia Nuzzi has quietly resurfaced on the LA social scene, networking across exclusive hotspots and spending time with Vice's Shane Smith as the media founder attempts to resurrect Vice News www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...
Nuzzi’s New ViceThe former star politics reporter has been quietly networking in Los Angeles, spending time with Shane Smith as he attempts to revive Vice News, Status has learned.www.status.newsAfter Kevin O'Leary abruptly walked back unsupported allegations linking critics of his data center project to China, Fox News spent the weekend cleaning up after him, with hosts embarking on a rare on-air apology tour www.status.news/p/fox-news-k...
Fox News’ Not-So-Wonderful ApologyAfter Kevin O'Leary retracted unsupported allegations linking critics of his Utah data center project to China, Fox News embarked on a rare on-air apology tour, one not even Dominion was afforded.www.status.newsMark Zuckerberg participated in his first interview in nearly a year with Emily Sundberg’s Feed Me, but the controlled format allowed the Meta CEO to sidestep some of the more probing subscriber questions www.status.news/p/mark-zucke...
Zuck’s Interview DuckIn a rare interview, Mark Zuckerberg sidestepped tough questions from Emily Sundberg’s Feed Me readers, Status has learned, at a moment when Meta faces mounting scrutiny.www.status.newsNew: Just months after the Washington Post gutted its local operation, it’s now restructuring the department and hiring in areas it cut, leaving staff with “whiplash” and questions about the data-driven layoffs www.status.news/p/washington...
The Post’s Local BackpedalAfter slashing much of its local reporting, The Washington Post is quietly rebuilding its coverage, Status has learned, raising fresh questions about the data-driven layoffs.www.status.newsScoop: An NBCU exec seemingly justified Comcast’s donation to Trump’s ballroom project during a training session with NBC affiliates Wednesday, comments that were poorly received by some in attendance and threatened to revive the contribution discourse www.status.news/p/comcast-ba...
NBC's Ballroom BlowbackAn NBCUniversal executive’s candid remarks justifying Comcast’s donation to Trump’s ballroom stunned reporters in the room and reignited questions about the company’s motives, Status has learned.www.status.newsNew: The New York Times' publication of a guest interview with Kathy Ruemmler has prompted internal debate over the paper’s strict separation between the newsroom and opinion section, and whether powerful figures can leverage that divide www.status.news/p/new-york-t...
The Two Sides of The TimesA New York Times guest interview with a Jeffrey Epstein associate has sparked internal backlash and renewed questions about the divide between its newsroom and opinion section, Status has learned.www.status.news