What polling data is leading Nate Silver to call this presidential race the closest he’s ever seen? What exactly was happening in the final days of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto company, FTX? And what should you know about Netflix’s new contingency compensation model? Puck founding partner Baratunde Thurston walks you through three Puck stories he can’t get enough of this week. Read them in full here: https://lnkd.in/eiDdNZi3 Video: Ryan Jones Credits: Getty Images (Dimitrios Kambouris/Netflix; Franco Origlia/WireImage), Bloomberg Originals, Kamala Harris/YouTube. #Legal #Finance #Crypto #Hollywood
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Puck is a subscription media company covering power, money, and ego, focusing on the inside story at the nexus of Hollywood, Wall Street, Washington, and Silicon Valley, as well as the businesses of media, fashion, sports, and art. We offer readers unprecedented access to elite journalists through articles, podcasts, newsletters, conference calls, events, and more. Puck is proudly journalist-owned. It was founded by four media industry veterans, in partnership with a team of entrepreneurial journalists, who believe that there is a better model to create sustainably excellent content while narrowing the synapse between elite creators and their audiences.
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For one night, and one night only, Brian Williams will make his latest return to television for an election night special with Amazon. How did “Election Night in America With Brian Williams” come to be? And what does it mean for the future of news on streaming? Puck’s Dylan Byers has the story: https://lnkd.in/eH56AVK9 Photos: Monica Schipper/Getty Images for New York Comedy Festival, #Media #Streaming
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The industry-wide resetting of TV news contracts is now firmly underway, it seems, and most talent will be affected—at best by a smaller-than-anticipated cost-of-living raise, often by a pay cut, and, at worst, by a delicately choreographed defenestration. Puck’s media correspondent Dylan Byers has the numbers: https://lnkd.in/etqxkHCG Photo: Earl Gibson III/WireImage #Media #TV #Streaming
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The final month of the Trump-Harris dogfight is shaping up to be less shocking, in many respects, than the history-shaping summer that preceded it. But the media hunger surrounding Washington’s favorite political ritual has a momentum of its own… Puck’s chief political columnist, John Heilemann, explores: https://lnkd.in/eCr-3ajY Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
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“Back in the late ’90s, when I was working in Merrill Lynch’s M&A group, our leader Jack Levy and I used to traipse up to Ronald Perelman’s triple-wide, five-story palazzo on East 62nd Street, between Madison and Park, from the bank’s headquarters downtown at the World Financial Plaza,” Puck’s William D. Cohan recalls. “The goal of our visits was to bat around acquisition ideas with the billionaire.” “Nearly 30 years on, Perelman hardly resembles that feared Wall Street titan,” Bill continues. What caused Perelman’s $20 billion personal fortune to go up in smoke? Bill explores: https://lnkd.in/eS9-fetc Photos: Shahar Azran/WireImage, Chris Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images #WallStreet #Finance
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An agency founded by a group of William Morris agents is now trying to shut down its own defectors over the legal definition of “talent managers.” But Creative Artists Agency’s battle with Range Media Partners isn’t just about preventing former agents from taking clients like Bradley Cooper to a new company. It’s about current agents thinking they can do something similar… Puck’s Matthew Belloni has the story: https://lnkd.in/e8qmKFQs Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for The Hollywood Reporter #Hollywood
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While it appears that Diamond Sports will live to see another day, its beef with Major League Baseball (MLB) will undermine its chances at long-term stability… Puck’s sports business correspondent, John Ourand, has the scoop after Diamond’s latest hearing in its belabored bankruptcy process: https://lnkd.in/e8VUfaC8 Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images #Sports #Media
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Puck’s Tara Palmeri offers a diagnostic sampling of the various anxieties at play in Palm Beach as the Trump brain trust prepares for the final push to November 5. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/e9jEcUr5 Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Just three years after the passing of Virgil Abloh, LVMH is offloading Off-White. It’s heading to Bluestar Alliance, the sort of licensing firm known for sucking struggling brands dry, whose has-been brand portfolio includes Bebe and Limited Too. “Off-White will end up a mass-market, cheap product in a million categories,” an American fashion executive warns Puck’s Lauren Sherman. So, why is LVMH selling? Lauren has the story: https://lnkd.in/ehmic8-U Photo: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images #Fashion
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The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.’s latest stab at innovation is Balmain Beauty, a new partnership that attempts to revive a legacy brand and has debuted with an exceedingly large portfolio of products. Could it work? Puck’s contributing beauty correspondent, Rachel Strugatz, explores: https://lnkd.in/ex5DcPuA Photos: Carlijn Jacobs/Courtesy of Balmain Beauty #Beauty