#editorial-direction

#editorial-direction

We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don't know how to do that. The memo comes a day after CBS News owner Paramount Skydance emerged as the likely victor in a takeover fight for Warner Bros Discovery, owner of CNN. CBS is now headed by Bari Weiss, a conservative commentator turned media entrepreneur, whose appointment was seen as a fillip to the Trump administration.

Long time readers of AD might have noticed a shift in 2016. As Anna Wintour, global editorial director of Vogue and global chief content officer of Condé Nast, describes it, the homes and rooms that graced the glossy pages "were somehow more lived in, more human-scaled. Not everything had to be so perfectly in its place." That perceptible swing-characterized by personality, warmth, and settled approachability-coincided with Amy Astley's appointment as our head of editorial content.