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Which way to the dude ranch? Joshua Robinson, Gerry Cardinale, and Zlatan Ibrahimović speak during WSJ Sports: The Next Sports Economy on July 16, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images)
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In tonight’s edition, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones are elbowing their way into an already crowded space by making a push to cover the business of sports. The Journal has big plans to launch its own sports vertical, but who's gonna run it? Tonight we reveal who WSJ EIC Emma Tucker and Chief Growth Officer Scott Havens have held talks with – including with one of the leading voices in the sports media market – and their plans for the vertical.
Plus it’s a return to the bargaining table for the management of the New York Times and the News Guild. The most recent session included a heated discussion about A.I., with the Guild accusing the Times of contradicting its own A.I. standards. But tonight we reveal why that may not be the case.
Also, Mathias Döpfner is ready to celebrate his Telegraph triumph with a fancy shindig, even more staff leave Sharon “Whackjob” Waxman at The Wrap, former ABC News chief Kim Godwin makes plans for a comeback, and which ex-top Politico correspondent has just launched their own Substack – to cover UFOs?
Finally, we have a bumper edition of Journo (and Comms) Jobs which now includes Internships. Below we have gigs at Ankler, Bloomberg, Jewish Insider, Vox, New York Times, New York Post, Fox News and The Guardian. Plus internship opportunities at: CNN and StoryCorps.
Mentioned tonight: Gerry Cardinale, Jeff Zucker, Mark Shapiro, A.G. Sulzberger, Arash Massoudi, James Fontanella-Khan, Tom Braithwaite, David Crow, Zach Seward, Carolyn Ryan, Marc Lacey, Lane Kiffin, Trinidad Chambliss, Matt Strauss, Bela Bajaria, Sarah Germano, Murad Ahmed, Adam Silver, Lukas I. Alpert, Willy Staley, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Whitney Frick, Anna Silman, Donald Trump, Michael Savage, Brendan Relph, Meredith Kopit Levien, Hanaa’ Tameez, Jaspreet Singh, Daniel Barnes, Jacob Wendler, Jennifer Mascott, Adam Piore, Bari Weiss, Tom Cibrowski, Andrew Pierce, Charlotte Tobitt, Daniel Thomas, Kevin McGurn, Daniel Lippman, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Nicola Davis, Richard Rushfield, Rob Walker, Sam Buckingham-Jones, Joe Aston, Lachlan Murdoch, Brian Steinberg, Haley Zimmerman, Stefania Palma, Emma Yeomans, Neil Vigdor, Jennifer Schuessler, Matt Hamilton, Ben Schreckinger, Michaela Dosamantes, Edward Menicheschi, Arthur MacMillan, Caroline Hulshoff Pol, Chris Evans, and more.
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