Susan Chira to step down as top editor of The Marshall Project

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billionaire Frank McCourt is mounting a TikTok bid. he tells Lauren Hirsch & me: “We’re the one bidder that doesn’t want the algorithm because we’re talking about a different architecture, a different way of thinking about the internet & how it operates.' nytimes.com/2024/05/15/bus…

CNN announces televised presidential debate between Biden and Trump on June 27 — notably, no audience

Daily Beast's Justin Baragona reports that Jimmy Finkelstein, late of The Messenger, wants to get back in the game... thedailybeast.com/the-messenger-…

#BREAK : Condé Nast Global C.R.O. Pamela Drucker Mann is leaving the company after 16+ years, another blow to a publishing giant struggling with shifting strategies and internal dysfunction.

Full details in the next edition of Puck’ In The Room: 
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I’m going back to work at the greatest newspaper in the world!!!!!!!

Great read from Sapna Maheshwari on Betches Media nytimes.com/2024/05/11/bus…

So so happy about this — welcome to the team Erin Mershon!

First in Semafor: Nicholas Carlson is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Business Insider semafor.com/article/05/07/…

Scoop: Kim Godwin is out at ABC News w/Joe Flint wsj.com/business/media…

The Columbia Daily Spectator staff wrote and photographed an entire cover package for New York Magazine, I am so ridiculously proud of them!!! columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/0…

the hottest club on the Lower East Side last night was… TikTok’s presentation to advertisers, which drew a crowd of 300+ people. the company’s head of business solutions thanked them for their support & said: “I want you to know we are not backing down.” nytimes.com/2024/05/03/bus…

NEWS w/Lauren Hirsch: Sony and Apollo have put in their letter to acquire Paramount for $26 billion in all-cash
nytimes.com/2024/05/02/bus…

Here's Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb's memo to faculty. 'We believe that journalists have a fundamental right to cover the news. Your efforts turned those sentiments into reality.'

On The Daily this morning (!) talking TikTok and the new law pushing the company to either divest from ByteDance or face a ban: nytimes.com/2024/04/30/pod… thanks for having me on Sabrina Tavernise & team!

NEW: A group of Alden newspapers, including New York Daily News & The Chicago Tribune, has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using millions of copyrighted articles to train and power their AI chatbots nytimes.com/2024/04/30/bus…

News: The union that represents Wall Street Journal employees says it has authorized a strike vote over the company's contract proposals x.com/IAPE1096/statu…

New: Hunter Biden declares war on Fox News with threat of 'imminent' lawsuit
Lawyer argues the network has defamed him and used hacked personal photos.
axios.com/2024/04/29/hun…

Bob Bakish steps down. He's entitled to severance worth $50.6 million. a/Lauren Hirsch
nytimes.com/2024/04/29/bus…
$PARA

NEWS: OAN retracts false report about Cohen having an affair with Stormy Daniels, with apology nytimes.com/2024/04/29/nyr…