Igermania, the WaPo & Zaz

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Welcome back to In the Room, my biweekly private email centered on the inner workings of the media industry. Tonight, a conversation with Puck co-founder and editor-in-chief Jon Kelly about the Iger-Chapek aftershocks, the Disney succession question, the future of ESPN, Zaslav’s CNN shakeout, and updates on the Buzbee-Ryan melodrama at The Washington Post.

As a reminder, this newsletter will be off on Friday for the holiday, and back in your inbox next Wednesday.

Happy Thanksgiving,
Dylan

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Igermania, the WaPo, & Zaz

News and notes on the interior monologue of the media industry in semi-pre-holiday-repose.

DYLAN BYERS

Jon Kelly: Alright, Dylan, let’s start in the place that every conversation must begin: Bob Iger’s return. What’s the latest inside conversation? And also, a friend just told me he saw him having lunch the other day with Kevin Mayer? Is that a friendly rapprochement, or maybe the start of an olive branch? The gossip mill is in overdrive these days.

Dylan Byers: The Iger-Chapek shakeup really is one of those rare Shakespearean plot twists that deserves its own chapter in the histories of corporate America, and it’s a history still being written. But it’s been fascinating to watch...

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