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In today’s edition, beleaguered broadcasters face off, as ABC’s Tom Cibrowski takes the helm at CBS. Watching on are former colleagues including Debra OConnell, Almin Karamehmedovic, George Stephanopoulos and Robin Roberts.

At least one protest group is seeking Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan in Miami. But we’ve found him in downtown Manhattan, and at a venue that is both totally on-brand and also somehow likely to shock and appall everyone.

In this week’s podcast, from Lure in Soho, we’re joined by special guest Alex Isenstadt, of Axios, who was kind enough to share some of the eyebrow-raising scoops from his new book on Donald Trump. We discuss Trump’s weird relationship with Rupert Murdoch, a mole hunt at Fox (less charmingly woodland than it sounds), berated editors, comfort-watch movies and turmoil at Columbia University.

Also tabloid and broadsheet parties, Jeff Bezos and MAGA, and Law and Order SVU.

Endangered furniture and phone chess as CBS and ABC retool

CBS News has been beset by problems. A lacklustre evening news relaunch. 60 Minutes under scrutiny thanks to a lawsuit from the President. The controversial interview Tony Dokoupil did with Ta-Nehisi Coates that signalled the end of executive Adrienne Roark.

Former ABC News executive Tom Cibrowski’s arrival this week as president and executive editor couldn’t come fast enough for journalists, and president and chief executive of CBS News and stations Wendy McMahon, who have been under siege. But Cibrowski, a competitive news boss known for taking big swings, has his work cut out for him. We are told he has been asking pointed questions about…

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