# Status

> Scoops and insights on the media and tech industries, hitting inboxes seven days a week.

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## Posts
- [Dokoupil’s Ratings ‘Dagger’](https://www.status.news/p/cbs-evening-news-ratings-tony-dokoupil-matt-gutman): Tony Dokoupil’s summer vacation has delivered an unexpected and somewhat awkward result for CBS News: the program’s substitute delivered the show’s best ratings in months, Status has learned.
- [The Guthrie Gridlock](https://www.status.news/p/nancy-guthrie-savannah-fbi-sheriff-frustration): Six months after Nancy Guthrie's abduction, frustration is mounting behind the scenes, Status has learned, as the FBI and local authorities continue to trade blame while the investigation appears stalled.
- [The Ellison Credibility Crisis](https://www.status.news/p/david-ellison-cnn-cbs-news-nyt-oped): The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at CBS News.
- [Bilton’s Leak Battle](https://www.status.news/p/60-minutes-nick-bilton-leaks-cbs-news): The new “60 Minutes” executive producer welcomed staff back from their July vacations with a weekend memo in which he delivered a stern message about leaks, a missive that naturally leaked to Status.
- [The Post's Opinion Parting](https://www.status.news/p/adam-oneal-washington-post-opinion-exit): Days before his abrupt exit from The WaPo, Adam O’Neal was privately boasting that he had pushed the Opinion section further to the right—raising new questions about what really drove his departure.
- [MAGA’s Leaky Narrative](https://www.status.news/p/reflecting-pool-misinformation-jeanine-pirro-fox-news): Weeks after Fox News and top right-wing media figures blamed Democrats for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the Justice Department admitted the narrative didn't hold water.
- [MAGA Media’s Fauci Fever](https://www.status.news/p/anthony-fauci-fox-news-diaries-media): Anthony Fauci’s return to Capitol Hill offered right-wing media something it desperately needed: a familiar bogeyman and welcome distraction from Donald Trump’s political troubles.
- [The WSJ’s Tech Tremors](https://www.status.news/p/wall-street-journal-tech-reporters-emma-tucker): The newspaper is still feeling the aftershocks of last year’s overhaul of its San Francisco bureau, Status has learned, while tension mounts between top editor Emma Tucker and her boss Robert Thomson.
- [Byron's HuffPost Hatchet](https://www.status.news/p/buzzfeed-huffpost-layoffs-byron-allen): Inside HuffPost’s tense post-layoff town hall on Wednesday, shaken staffers demanded answers about the cuts and questioned Byron Allen’s vision for the BuzzFeed-owned newsroom, Status has learned.
- [Bari's New '60' Slate](https://www.status.news/p/60-minutes-ross-douthat-new-correspondents-bari-weiss): CBS News’ decision to appoint a conservative opinion columnist as a “60 Minutes” correspondent sparked consternation inside the network, Status has learned, while also drawing sharp criticism from industry veterans.
- [The Race to Rebuild ‘60 Minutes’](https://www.status.news/p/60-minutes-nick-bilton-bari-weiss-new-correspondents): With the fall season fast approaching, Nick Bilton and Bari Weiss are racing to rebuild the newsmagazine, holding screen tests featuring mock Ghislaine Maxwell interviews and hunting for new senior leaders, Status has learned.
- [Parsing Paramount's Pause](https://www.status.news/p/paramount-warner-bros-merger-pause-experts): In a Status roundtable, eight antitrust experts assess the mounting costs, legal risks, and ultimate prospects of Paramount's blockbuster Warner Bros. Discovery deal. 
- [The White House Correspondents’ Disgrace](https://www.status.news/p/the-white-house-correspondents-disgrace): The WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.
- [Loomer’s Kyiv Curveball](https://www.status.news/p/laura-loomer-zelenskyy-ukraine-maga-russia-trump): After years of attacking Ukraine, Laura Loomer traveled to Kyiv, interviewed Zelenskyy, and emerged with a very different message, offering a glimpse into Ukraine's growing effort to reach Trump's media ecosystem.
- [Vega Breaks Her Silence](https://www.status.news/p/cecilia-vega-cbs-60-minutes-bari-weiss): The fired “60 Minutes” correspondent revealed stunning new details about how CBS News management tried to meddle in her reporting, according to an audio recording obtained by Status.
- [ESPN's Messy Roster Shakeup](https://www.status.news/p/espn-layoffs-staffers-cut-ryan-clark): The cuts at the Disney-owned network exposed mounting tensions inside its Bristol headquarters, Status has learned, with network management scrambling to notify talent and staffers of their fate as news leaked.
- [Clarissa Ward’s CNN Crossroads](https://www.status.news/p/clarissa-ward-cnn-contract-paramount-bari-weiss): The star foreign correspondent could not reach a long-term deal with CNN earlier this year amid friction with executives and concerns over Bari Weiss potentially taking editorial control of the network, Status has learned.
- [CBS’ Eleventh-Hour Call](https://www.status.news/p/cbs-news-donald-trump-speech-primetime): The Bari Weiss-led network privately indicated it would snub Donald Trump’s primetime address last week, Status has learned, only to reverse course at the last minute and air the speech.
- [Döpfner and Bari’s Toast to Thiel](https://www.status.news/p/peter-thiel-axel-springer-bari-weiss-award): By awarding MAGA billionaire Peter Thiel its highest-profile honor, Axel Springer is providing one of the clearest signals yet of the publisher’s rightward evolution under Mathias Döpfner.