Zelensky’s Booking War, WaPo Succession Options, The Linda Meltdown

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

First up today, Dylan Byers clocks the chatter inside Hudson Yards as Mark Thompson ascends to the throne of CNN—and what it means for “The Quad” interim leadership team. Plus, notes on a right-wing media booking war over Zelensky.

Then, below the fold: Matt Belloni spotlights the post-writers’ strike deal purge sweeping Hollywood. Jonathan Handel posits five aftershocks from the WGA deal. Bill Cohan previews Linda Yaccarino’s summit with the seven banks white-knuckling X’s (née Twitter) $13 billion debt. And on The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Jon Kelly discuss a grab bag of media goodies: the TV extinction event, Bezos’s WaPo succession options, and more.