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Does anyone need help moving any furniture? Cecilia Vega, Jonathan Greenberger, and Ali Ehrlich attend the CAA Kickoff Party for the White House Correspondents Dinner weekend on April 29, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)
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In tonight’s edition, after a long, drawn-out search process involving several external candidates, Politico has finally found their new global editor-in-chief – and he was in the building all along. In tonight’s edition, we have details on Jonathan Greenberger’s Tuesday town hall with staff as well as the winners – and losers – from his ascension. And the moves afoot by a Politico co-founder who is disrupting D.C. media one poaching at a time.
Also, New York Times Business editor, Ellen Pollock, is a fixture of The Gray Lady known for her sharp wit and bedside manner. But word has recently spread at the Times that she is retiring, and an unlikely replacement is in line for her prized position. Pollock tonight addresses her future at the paper.
Plus, Puck celebrates April Fool’s Day, but the joke may be on them, and a bumper reading, listening, and watching list to ensure that as summer approaches, you can shut your laptop for the weekend and not miss any media news.
Finally, we have published a photo gallery from our one-year birthday bash, and the happy snaps are now available in our photo store for purchase. We’ve added a ton of new pictures to the gallery, so if you missed Breaker last week, visit our rogues’ gallery!
Mentioned tonight: Gerry Cardinale, Peter Chernin, Kathleen Kingsbury, Ellen Pollock, Rob Copeland, Robert Allbritton, Goli Sheikholeslami, Jonathan Greenberger, John Harris, Alex Burns, Michael Corkery, Pui-Wing Tam, Mohammed Hadi, Bret Stephens, Peter Spiegel, Julie Pace, James Bennet, James Fontanella-Khan, David Crow, Lachlan Murdoch, Barry Diller, Mathias Döpfner, Jan Bayer, Neal Mohan, Karoline Leavitt, Dovid Efune, Dylan Byers, Bill Cohan, Jon Kelly, Oliver Darcy, Elaine Low, Nate Rattner, Ben Fritz, Dominic Ponsford, Charlotte Klein, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Michael Savage, Scott Mills, Scarlet Howes, Huw Edwards, Alex Preston, Corbin Bolies, Nick Lichtenberg, Isabella Simonetti, and more.
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The Super Bowl of Newsletters Returns
It’s the Super Bowl of the newsletter industry —The Newsletter Conference is back for its third year with a stellar lineup, including Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic; Anna Palmer, CEO and founder of Punchbowl News; Joanna Stern, NBC News tech contributor; Oliver Darcy of Status; Jacob Cohen Donnelly, founder of A Media Operator; and Max Tcheyan, CEO of Caper. Also on stage? Breaker with our trademark fedora.
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Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss
On Tuesday morning, Politico journalists from Rosslyn to Brussels joined a town hall as their new world order began.
After more twists and turns than a Hitchcock thriller and with a series of marquee external candidates pulling out of the running, Politico has looked within to replace John Harris as global editor-in-chief.
On Sunday, the Axel Springer-owned outlet named their current Executive Vice President (and former This Week with George Stephanopoulos EP), Jonathan Greenberger, to lead the organization.
"Vive la révolution!"
Greenberger is a known entity, and he knows Washington, but is far from a big splashy hire that Axel CEO Mathias Dopfner and his mini-me Jan Bayer had originally sought.
As Breaker first reported, the pair met with New York Times columnist Bret Stephens about the gig last year, before turning their attention to the Washington Post’s Peter Spiegel, the Associated Press’ Julie Pace, The Economist’s James Bennet, the Financial Times’ James Fontanella-Khan, and The Wall Street Journal’s David Crow.
But the dynamic duo, who are now distracted by their shiny new Telegraph toy, ultimately went with the person who was already in the building: Greenberger.
“As we approach the US presidential 2028, which, as Alex [Burns] often says, will be the defining global news event of the remainder of this decade, I want the best political team covering that election, period,” Greenberger told staffers on Tuesday.
“We’re not going to say, ‘Oh, we aspire to someday compete with so and so,’ we’re going to have the best team. We’re not going to settle for anything less. And not just for a US audience, we are going to narrate that election, its themes, for a global audience from London to Berlin to Canberra, better than anyone else. Period.”
The decision is a big win for Politico co-founder John Harris, who did a majestic job of…
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The Super Bowl of Newsletters Returns
It’s the Super Bowl of the newsletter industry —The Newsletter Conference is back for its third year with a stellar lineup, including Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic; Anna Palmer, CEO and founder of Punchbowl News; Joanna Stern, NBC News tech contributor; Oliver Darcy of Status; Jacob Cohen Donnelly, founder of A Media Operator; and Max Tcheyan, CEO of Caper. Also on stage? Breaker with our trademark fedora.
It’s the one day of the year to get the scoop on your favorite newsletters (and the businesses behind them) while rubbing shoulders with industry leaders and decision-makers from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, the Daily Mail, Forbes, People Inc., TED, The Athletic, and the Associated Press.
The Newsletter Conference is offering Breaker readers a beaut bonza bargain on tickets: use promo code BREAKERGA for $100 off general admission or BREAKERVIP for $250 off VIP. The VIP dinner will be held at the exclusive Manhattan Penthouse with an open bar — and don’t be surprised if Breaker’s snapper has his long lens trained on the velvet-rope crowd.