Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon roundup of Puck’s best new reporting.
In today’s issue, media ace Dylan Byers scoops the Washington Post C.E.O. shortlist, as Jeff Bezos and interim leader Patty Stonesifer urgently hunt for a permanent chief to help the paper regain its footing against the Times et al.
Plus, below the fold: Julia Ioffe digs into the unspoken Ukraine dilemma looming over the shutdown negotiations. William D. Cohan chronicles the art world’s most explosive restitution case in a generation. On The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Matt Belloni consider Hollywood’s post-strike reality. And on Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri and Axios’s Alex Thompson channel the behind-the-scenes chatter emanating from the second Republican debate cringefest.
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