More Iger Intrigue, S.B.F. Purgatory, Tech’s ’24 Kingmakers

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon compendium of Puck’s best new reporting.

Today, we lead with Julia Alexander’s power ranking of which streaming services are most susceptible to Hollywood’s dual actors-and-writers strike, and which are best positioned to ride out the impasse.

Plus, below the fold: Julia Ioffe reveals how Washington is trying to “Trump-proof” military aid to Ukraine. Teddy Schleifer uncovers the latest ’24 fundraising twists and S.B.F.’s next move. And on The Powers That Be, Bill Cohan and Peter Hamby chew over Disney’s Staggs-Mayer-Iger reunion, while Eriq Gardner and Ben Landy delve into the latest Trump-Fox News legal entanglement.

JULIA ALEXANDER

A semi-surefire, partially-definitive, entirely data-driven guide to which streaming services are susceptible to the most subscriber churn as the dual actors-and-writers impasse grinds on.

JULIA IOFFE

The goal of institutionalizing the flow of aid to Ukraine wasn’t simply about creating predictability. It was also about Trump-proofing foreign policy.

TEDDY SCHLEIFER

The ’24 kingmakers in Silicon Valley have at last been revealed, and this cycle is full of surprises—think Jan Koum, not Elon Musk. Plus, are Bankman-Fried’s former political allies finally off the hook?

PETER HAMBY, BILL COHAN, BEN LANDY and ERIQ GARDNER

Bill Cohan joins Peter to chat about the biggest story in media—Matt Belloni’s scoopage that Tom Staggs and Kevin Mayer are going to help their old boss, Bob Iger, figure out his streaming conundrum. Then Eriq Garder swings by with a Trump-Fox News legal entanglement.