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Lachlan Cartwright was editor at large for The Daily Beast from July 2021 to January 2024. From May 2018 to July 2021 he was a senior reporter and covered stories at the nexus of power, crime, celebrity and justice. He created and helmed the must-read media newsletter Confider and was formerly an executive editor at American Media Inc. Prior to that he was a column editor and reporter at the New York Daily News and before that a reporter at the New York Post and a reporter and news editor at The Sun in London.
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RFK Jr.’s Lover Olivia Nuzzi is Trying To Silence Me Says Ex
‘True Motivations’Ryan Lizza says he has “nothing to hide” in new court documents obtained by the Beast.

New WaPo Chief Angered His Ex-Staff During Hacking Crisis
Murdoch’s Long ShadowWill Lewis was tasked with cleaning up News Corp’s hacking scandal in Britain—and ex-colleagues say he threw them to the wolves to protect the powerful.

NYT Correspondent Nixes Eyebrow-Raising Climate Change Post
BRINGING THE HEATDavid Gelles touted remarks he made at a dinner in Davos about climate change—but some of his colleagues questioned whether he violated the newspaper’s ethics guidelines.

Don Lemon Begins ‘X’-Rated Comeback in Musk Land
X MARKS THE SPOTIn this week’s edition of Confider, we reveal how the fired CNN star will return to your screens soon—just not the cable-news ones he’s used to.

The Messenger Is On Life Support With Weeks to Live: Sources
CODE BLUEThe digital media start-up’s Slack channel devolved into outright mutiny with staffers begging EIC Dan Wakeford for answers, to no avail.

Who’s Killing All These Stories About a Controversial Mogul?
CONFIDERA tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.

The Messenger’s Mess Might’ve Just Gotten Even Messier
CONFIDERAmid persistent fears of layoffs and financial woes, we’ve got some new dispatches from inside the highly hyped media startup.

Ex-NYT Editor Wants to Revisit Scandal That Ended Him
CONFIDERThe Times has long wanted to move on from the 2020 scandal around Tom Cotton’s op-ed, but the editor who lost his job over it is apparently not ready to do so.

How the Media Grinches Are About to Steal Christmas
’TIS THE SEASONSeveral media giants, including The New Yorker and The Messenger, are poised to layoff staffers in droves this holiday season, Confider has learned.

The Fiery Daily News Lawsuit Rocking NY City Hall
CONFIDERThe Daily News’ former City Hall reporter is suing the paper for gender discrimination, while a NY Times star’s efforts in the case has drawn all the chatter.
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