DYLAN BYERS

News and notes on the latest preoccupations of the television news business: Mark Thompson’s Five Year Plan and Kristen Welker’s debut on ‘Meet the Press.’

MATT BELLONI

Matt is joined by journalist Michael Wolff, author of ‘The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty,’ to talk what a post-Murdoch Fox News looks like.

TINA NGUYEN

Beneath the façade of a unified opposition to the compromise G.O.P. spending plan, the hardline bloc is really a confederation of “caucuses of one,” as a House Republican insider put it, each with their own individual incentives, which McCarthy could use to break them apart—if they don’t get rid of him first.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

Musings on the fate of the once-great Walt Disney Company and whether it would be great once again. Does that mean spinning off ABC and ESPN together?