About to hit 10,000 sign-ups for my private email What I'm Hearing. If you are lucky 10K, I will send you this extremely stylish Puck canvas bag. Request an invite here (I will need to approve your request): whatimhearing.news/matt-belloni/

New for Puck, reporting from Venice, CA: Why Gavin Newsom is in trouble — and the Biden voters who put him there ckarchive.com/b/75u7h8hrzvd7

Taking you behind the scenes as we build ⁦⁦Puck⁩ with stars like ⁦Tina Nguyen⁩. NEW: The GOP nom is DeSantis’ to lose in ‘24 email.puck.news/deliveries/dgP…

🚨🚨Today's official Puck launch day, join us here for my email dispatches and other hot fresh authors Baratunde Dylan Byers Julia Ioffe Teddy Schleifer William D. Cohan Tina Nguyen Peter Hamby and more coming soon. puck.news/subscribe/

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🙌 thanks Jake Sherman

Who can replace Rachel Maddow MSNBC? The resounding answer inside MSNBC is: No one. “We have no bench,” a producer said. And yet as you move higher up the organization, it's clear that one person has emerged as the preferred successor: Nicolle Wallace. Full story: puck.news/msnbc-stares-d…

NEW Puck: New scoops on Rachel Maddow, Brian Williams & the future of MSNBC prime time…. Plus: the story behind the story on Chris Cuomo & Shelley Ross… and a little ABC drama… puck.news/more-maddow-ma…

Friends: Come join Jon Kelly & I as we take a look under the hood of cable news, an industry in withdrawal from Trump and still struggling to figure out its future on streaming. Private Zoom call is Friday, Oct. 8 @ 1 p.m. ET. Exclusive to Puck Inner Circle Members.

Been working on this one for a while. Give it a read. Tell me what you think

NEWS: Matthew Belloni reports that Bob Iger has told at least a couple friends that he’d love to front a bid for the Phoenix Suns if the NBA team were to become available (pending the league’s investigation into owner Robert Sarver). Read it here: puck.news/bob-iger-would…

Some immediate thoughts on the Chris Wallace to CNN+ news (first reported by The L.A. Times):

Matt Belloni was on on Squawk Box this morning, talking box office disappointments and what the future holds for the silver screen.

NEWS: The Athletic has now entered into exclusive talks with The New York Times regarding a sale of its 1.2 million subscriber business, a source directly familiar with the matter tells Dylan Byers. Story here: puck.news/new-york-times…

First syndication experiment for The Rebooting. Excited to partner with Jon Kelly and Puck.

NEW: Ben Smith and Justin Smith talk to Dylan Byers about their new media venture, and plan to create “the leading, multi-platform news brand for the whole English-speaking world.” puck.news/news-on-the-be…

I spoke with Meredith Levien, Jessica Lessin, Justin B. Smith, @jonkelly2 and others about the future of the news business: ft.com/content/5ab5b5…

I love this definition of “newsletter” by ⁦Jon Kelly⁩ from his reliably smart “newsletter”

We’re launching a new pod w/ Matthew Belloni called ‘The Town’ that covers the inner workings of Hollywood — the streaming wars, awards shenanigans, exec shuffles, expensive failures, industry buzz + much more. Launches Monday! Follow/subscribe on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4uXizLZjs…

New: Puck has paused advertising on Twitter, co-founder Jon Kelly tells me, marking the first news organization (that I'm aware of) which has suspended advertising on the platform since Musk banned several high-profile journalists from the site.