Dylan Byers

Dylan Byers is the Senior Reporter for Media and Politics at CNN.[1] Previously, he was a media reporter for Politico. Byers attended Bard College, graduating in 2008.[2]

Career

Byers began his journalism career in early 2011 as a reporter for Adweek. With help from Ben Smith, Byers launched Politico's On Media blog in November 2011.[3]

In September 2015, fellow media reporter Brian Stelter announced that Byers was joining CNN as a senior reporter for media and politics. Byers will contribute to the Sunday media show Reliable Sources and other CNN programs. [4]

Controversy

In 2012, Byers drew scrutiny when he reported in Politico that President Barack Obama's girlfriend in Dreams from My Father was a composite character, which was acknowledged by Obama in the book. Aggregating the story from a chapter in David Maraniss's Barack Obama: The Story, excerpted in Vanity Fair, Byers adapted it into a micro-news story, headlined "Obama: 'New York girlfriend' was composite."[5] The Drudge Report linked to the story, and Rush Limbaugh said the report showed Obama had invented the girlfriend. Byers later updated the story, noting Obama had previously said the girlfriend mentioned in the book was a composite character.[6]

Byers was criticized for a critical profile about former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson entitled “Turbulence at The Times," which quoted many anonymous staffers who said she was difficult to work with. Several commentators labeled Byers's piece as sexist.[7] The Guardian's Emily Bell said of Byers report, "The lame nature of the reporting suggests it might be better just to ignore the piece entirely, but it deserves attention, as it fuels an exasperating and wholly sexist narrative about women in power."[8] Byers' report was called "devastating" to Abramson's tenure; she was dismissed from the paper a year later.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Murtha, Jack (2015-09-03). "CNN proves commitment to media coverage in hiring Dylan Byers". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
  2. ↑ "Dylan Byers". Politico. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
  3. ↑ "Ben Smith, Dylan Byers Launch New Media Blog For Politico". Huffington Post. 2011-11-04. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
  4. ↑ Stelter, Brian (2015-09-02). "Dylan Byers joining CNNMoney and CNN Politics". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
  5. ↑ Pareene, Alex (2012). "Come On, Feel the Buzz". The Baffler. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
  6. ↑ Graham, David (2012-05-02). "Obama's Composite Girlfriend: How Politico and Drudge Created Fake News". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
  7. ↑ Linabary, Jasmine (2013-04-28). "On Politico and the criticism of Jill Abramson". The Gender Report. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
  8. ↑ Bell, Emily (2013-04-24). "Jill Abramson and the wholly sexist narrative of the woman in power". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
  9. ↑ Rothstein, Betsy (2015-06-09). "Politicos Dylan Byers and NYT's Eric Lipton have a cat-fight on Twitter/". The Daily Caller. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
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