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PREVIEW VERSION
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Greetings from Montecito, happy 2025, and welcome back
to In the Room. Cheers to Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen on a refreshingly genuine and thoroughly amusing New Year’s Eve broadcast on CNN, complete with Diplo tripping during his interview and Whitney Cummings roasting CNN for its post-election ratings drop. The network still has its
moments.
In tonight’s email, a Talmudic reading of the latest post-election trade-window reporter transfers, and what they reveal about the state of play at The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Politico.
Mentioned in this email: Will Lewis, Matt
Murray, Olivia Beavers, Meridith McGraw, Tyler Pager, Matea Gold, Phil Rucker, Dasha Burns, Peter Baker, Mark Leibovich, David Fahrenthold, Gavin Bade, Emma Tucker, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, and many more…
But first…
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More news and notes on the traditional inter-administration
employment musical chairs within the D.C. media scene.
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This week, a team of editors at The Washington Post
sent a practically funereal note to their staff announcing the regrettable defection of one of their top young political journalists. After “a remarkable, scoop-filled run as a White House reporter,” Tyler Pager had decided to take his talents five blocks west to The New York Times, where he will soon reunite with Matea Gold, the longtime Post managing editor who also migrated to the Times last month after being passed over for
the Post’s top editor job. “Tyler’s loss will be keenly felt in the Post newsroom,” the paper’s national editor Phil Rucker wrote, “but we wish him the best in this new phase of his career.”
The lavish praise heaped upon Pager, a skilled but modestly accomplished twenty-something reporter, was at once a diplomatic farewell, a genuine expression of loss, and, frankly...
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