PERSON: Dylan Byers

Puck

Founder & Senior Correspondent

Dylan Byers is an American journalist. He is a founding partner and senior correspondent at Puck, a new media company focused on the intersection of Wall Street, Washington, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood, and the author of the In The Room private email. He previously served as the senior media reporter at NBC News, where he authored the Byers Market newsletter and hosted the Byers Market podcast, and at CNN. He has also worked at Politico and Adweek.

Byers was born to Margaret Carol Lewis and Judson Thomas Byers in Seattle, Washington. Both parents served as deputy mayor of Seattle, with a gap between them: Margaret first (1981–89), then Tom nine years later (1998–2002). Margaret was subsequently the director of a network of philanthropists in the Seattle area, and Judson is a founding partner of a public policy consulting firm.

Byers attended Lakeside School in Seattle, from which he graduated in 2004, and Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, from which he graduated in 2008.

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