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Dylan Byers is an American journalist. He is a senior reporter for media and politics at CNN. He covers the business of media for CNN Digital and regularly appears on CNN television to discuss his reporting. Byers is also a frequent contributor to CNN's Sunday media show, Reliable Sources. He is specifically involved in CNN Money and CNN Politics.

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Early life and education

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Dylan Byers was born to Margaret Carol Lewis and Judson Thomas "Tom" Byers of 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.

Dylan Byers attended Bard College, graduating in 2008.

Career

Byers has worked as a research assistant to New Yorker writers Philip Gourevitch, George Packer, and Jane Kramer.

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He began his journalism career as a media and tech reporter for Adweek. He later moved to Politico and launched the On Media blog in November 2011. On Media became known as a "scoop heavy blog" for media and political news. Byers created and grew the blog, and critics praised it as "workaholic media-politics coverage," specific to Byers' niche of the intersection between politics and media.

While at Politico, Byers wrote "“President Obama, off the record," an article providing readers a glimpse into an ‘off the record’ side of US President Barack Obama. For that story, he was a finalist in the 2014 Mirror Awards competition for Best Single Article in Digital Media.

In September 2015, fellow media reporter Brian Stelter announced that Byers was joining CNN. In his announcement, Stelter wrote, "Byers is a scoop machine ... When I’ve been offline for more than a few hours, the way I see what I’ve missed is by checking his Twitter feed."

Controversy

In 2012, Byers drew scrutiny when he reported in Politico that US President Barack Obama's girlfriend in Dreams from My Father was a composite character, which was already acknowledged by Obama in the book.

Byers was also criticized for "Turbulence at The Times," a critical profile about former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, which quoted many anonymous staffers who said she was difficult to work with. Several commentators labeled Byers's piece as sexist.

Personal life

Byers is married to Cara Colleen Walsh, a freelance graphic designer who attended New York University and Harvard University.

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