Good evening, I’m Dylan Byers.

Welcome back to In The Room, my biweekly private email that takes you behind the scenes of American media. Tonight, some fresh scoops on two very dramatic firings that have rocked the media industry this week: Peter Rice’s surprise ouster at Disney and Felicia Sonmez’s termination at The Washington Post. Plus, a little more insight into what Jeff Bezos wants out of his newspaper.

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Chapek was direct and unsentimental on Thursday’s call, sources who participated in the meeting said. He told Rice’s direct reports: “I’ve made a decision, and Peter is leaving the company.” Rice’s unit, Disney General Entertainment, needed “a more collaborative leader,” Chapek said, and someone who could better align the division with the rest of the organization. That leader would now be Dana Walden, Rice’s deputy and the chair of entertainment at Disney Television. The executives on the call, still shocked and perplexed by the news, did not ask any follow-up questions...