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Mark Lazarus spent his first day as SpinCo boss meeting with anxious staffers at 30 Rock, offering reassurances amid uncertainty about the future of MSNBC and CNBC. "Doing a lost of listening," Lazarus Status. Staffers, though, are looking for a lot more answers. More in Status: https://lnkd.in/dVhqu4-r

The decision from Comcast will notably rip apart NBCU News Group boss Cesar Conde's kingdom, with MSNBC and CNBC being spun off. More in Status: https://lnkd.in/eJ5jqKmz

It is hard to read the "Morning Joe" crew's efforts to restart relations with Trump as anything but kissing the ring. More in Status: https://lnkd.in/eAxF_W7a

Nilay Patel on Elon Musk: "America now has an unelected defense contractor sitting in the?White House?doing ketamine and twiddling the algorithmic knobs of an influential right-wing echo chamber while fulminating against traditional standards-based journalism, threatening to revoke network broadcast licenses, and suing advertisers who don’t want to spend their money on his dwindling user base. What could go wrong?" More in Status: https://lnkd.in/gTiWpGuw

The race to become the next top editor of?The Washington Post?is heating up. Details in Status: https://lnkd.in/e_-si3dF

Donald Trump is intertwining MAGA Media with government, elevating figures who have spent years polluting the country's public discourse with disinformation. More in Status: https://lnkd.in/edUUKP9a

David Remnick to Status: "I lived in Moscow during a period when there was no journalism, only propaganda — and then there was. There was a flowering of truth-telling, in newspapers, on television and on the radio, in scholarly work, in the arts. A tremendous period of untold value. And then so much of it was killed by the return of dictatorship. In other words, it can happen here." Read the full Q&A: https://lnkd.in/ehFKMc3z

If leaders of media companies would like to see their deals sail through the approval process under Donald Trump's administration, they may find themselves under pressure to curtail critical news coverage of him. Details in Status: https://lnkd.in/egsRKSUr

Over the course of the last 18 months, most of the guardrails that technology and news organizations erected in the aftermath of Trump's 2020 defeat were willfully lowered. It all led to an information environment rife with pollution, making it easier for Trump to reclaim power. More in Status: https://lnkd.in/ecmiS5b3

Even before Amazon's Election Night special with Brian Williams kicks off, it has already found itself in hot water with the Trump campaign. Details in Status: https://lnkd.in/egq7ZvbQ