Good evening, I'm Dylan Byers.

Welcome back to In the Room, my biweekly private email on the intrigue and inside story behind what’s going on in the media industry. 

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In today’s email: Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust, the Cuomo bros, British paparazzi, Glaser Weil LLP, and CNN’s hilariously impractical “Standards and Practices.”

Jeff & Allison Ponder Their Next Moves

The most-watched couple in media are generating tabloid-level attention as they calculate their next professional steps.

As the drama surrounding Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust, and CNN consumed the media industry for a third straight week, I found myself marveling at the paparazzi-like obsession with the couple's every move. Here, courtesy of The Daily Mail, was Zucker “in a black puffer jacket and jeans” picking up pizza in midtown Manhattan. And here, also from the Mail, was Gollust “in black Louboutin stiletto heels” returning to her Upper East Side apartment. Thanks to The Ankler, there was Zucker breakfasting with his old friend Dick Ebersol at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, “casually dressed in jeans, sneakers and a grey pullover.” 

Such tabloid obsessions are usually reserved for A-list actors, Manhattan socialites and the British monarchy, or for the perpetrators of some nefarious scandal or crime, not the recently ousted executives of a cable news network. The photos made it appear like Zucker and Gollust were on the lam, or at least on the verge of getting dragged into court.

In actuality, it is Zucker and Gollust who will decide whether or not they want to take the matter of their forced resignations to court...

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