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In tonight’s edition, we report from inside 30 Rock: the EP of Nightly News moves to Versant as staffers dish on the striking differences between Lester Holt and Tom Llamas’ management styles. 

Also tonight, Michael Wolff has been making almost weekly appearances on The Daily Beast podcast with Joanna Coles with some truly whacky claims about Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, but what is in it for the author?

Plus, significant changes are set for several key desks at The New York Times as prominent editors move on, while the big media companies are searching for PR pros to fill their comms jobs.

Finally, tonight, it wouldn’t be Tuesday’s edition of Breaker without ‘Hamish’s Hot Sauce’ – Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie’s weekly thoughts on the media landscape. Tonight, why Fox Corp's innovative approach to the future of media is leaving its competitors in the dust. 

Mentioned tonight: Tom Llamas, Lester Holt, David Muir, Brian Williams, John Dickerson, Tom Brokaw, Maurice DuBois, Jay Sures, Janelle Rodriguez, Tom Cibrowski, Meghan Rafferty, Brian Carovillano, Ben Mayer, Matt Frucci, Michael Wolff, Barry Diller, Joanna Coles, Joe Kahn, Carolyn Ryan, Marc Lacey, David M. Halbfinger, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Nestor Ramos, Celia Dugger, Kevin Quealy, William McDonald, Ben Smith, Justin Smith, Brad Dayspring, Meera Pattni, David Zaslav, Matthew Hiltzik, Robert Gibbs, Brett Cooper, Hope Hicks, Lachlan Murdoch, Megyn Kelly, Rupert Murdoch, David Dinsmore, Peter Thiel and David Ellison. 

(Exclusive.) At lunchtime on Tuesday, NBC Nightly News staffers gathered in the Newsroom on the fourth floor of 30 Rock to hear from Executive Producer Meghan Rafferty, who told her team she has a new job. 

As Breaker first reported, Rafferty, who has been EP of Nightly since September 2021, announced she would be leaving NBC to join Versant as VP of Standards across MSNBC and CNBC.

For Nightly staffers, it marks the second major change to the show in just under two months, beginning when Lester Holt departed the anchor chair to make way for Tom Llamas.

Llamas, who is represented by UTA’s Jay Sures, has brought to the show a much more hands-on and hard-charging approach to Holt, which has upset…