new: A DealBook profile of Paramount's 11th-hour suitor, Edgar Bronfman Jr., with Lauren Hirsch. Barry Diller: "He’s savvy and dedicated and decent as well as an accomplished manager — it will be in good hands if he gets it." nytimes.com/2024/08/24/bus…

A fly-on-the-wall account of Twitter’s transformation by kate conger Ryan Mac 🙃 from their upcoming book Character Limit nytimes.com/2024/08/24/tec…

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news: Shane Harris, a prize-winning intelligence reporter at The Washington Post, is leaving the newspaper for The Atlantic

NEWS: Edgar Bronfman Jr. is dropping his pursuit of Paramount. Story TK.

🚨 statement from Edgar Bronfman Jr. 🚨 story here w/Lauren Hirsch: nytimes.com/2024/08/26/bus…

A perfect Nieman Lab headline: niemanlab.org/2024/08/are-pe…

CNN scores the first Kamala Harris interview – a joint appearance with Tim Walz airing at 9pm on Thursday. Dana Bash is the interviewer. nytimes.com/2024/08/27/tec…

Hank does not know that I've been engaging in an experiment all year where I wear the same bright shirt (which I call the Views Shirt) and then other shirts to see whether the Views Shirt actually increases views.

Thursday Cry Moved Up To Wednesday Due To Scheduling Conflict bit.ly/3T6Q4pZ

News from Washingtonian 🌸 on fired WaPo reporter Felicia Sonmez: “The complaint says the NLRB’s general counsel, which operates independently from the board, will ask for an order for The Post to reinstate Sonmez, who now works as a reporter in North Carolina.”

Russia barred more than a dozen The Wall Street Journal journalists from entering the country, as well as journalists from NYT and WaPo “The Putin regime is farcically consistent in its all-out assault on free press and truth. This laughable list of targets is no exception,” a WSJ spox said

News from the The New York Times newsroom: Robert D. McFadden is retiring after 63 years and 4,200 articles. "Bob set the standard for a gifted generalist capable of delivering a literary synthesis of the most important story of the day under impossible deadline pressure."

Wes Moore, Maryland’s governor, has faced questions for years about whether he had wrongfully claimed that he had a Bronze Star for his Army service. He insisted no, but an old document obtained this week by The New York Times proves otherwise. nyti.ms/3X4tgrW

The Times Tech Guild, which represents tech workers at NYT and is negotiating a contract, says it will soon hold a strike authorization vote x.com/NYTGuildTech/s…

The Power Broker turns 50, and I asked the mayoral candidates and other city leaders about lessons from the book and who is the Robert Moses of today: shorturl.at/H3AlP

Statement from Mark Thompson, CNN's C.E.O., on Brian Stelter return: "I’m very happy to welcome Brian back to CNN in this new role. Brian is one of the best global experts in media commentary, and as the founder of the Reliable Sources newsletter, he is the perfect choice to

New: NPR names former CNNer Thomas Evans as managing editor, editorial review where he will lead the new Backstop team

An update: Just four months in, Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo has attracted 31,000 paying subscribers and has an annualized revenue of about $3 million: washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

In today’s DealBook: @bernhardwarner breaks down Trumponomics 2.0; @laurenshirsch + @benmullin on Larry Ellison’s control of Paramount; Ravi Mattu explores Intel’s predicament; rethinking the bigger-is-better mentality in venture capital; and more nyti.ms/4dMphaC