Happy Friday, I’m Dylan Byers.

Welcome back to In The Room, my biweekly private email on the inner workings of the American media industry. Today, some never-before-reported backstory on the contentious—and nearly litigious—relationship between Politico’s former owner Robert Allbritton and his longtime C.E.O. Fred Ryan, which may help to explain a few of the former’s cutting remarks about the latter in a recent New Yorker assessment of Ryan’s current tenure at The Washington Post.

But first, a more current scoop: I’m told that when former President Donald Trump embarks on...

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The New Yorker piece was merely the latest meditation on the turmoil. As I’ve been reporting since last summer, many current and former Post employees blame...