Melissa Korn is a Deputy Bureau Chief at Media. She covers a wide range of topics including government and politics, finance, and publishing, with a focus on general assignment news, tech policy, and public policy. Melissa's work has been featured in prominent outlets such as Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal, and The Times.
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Melissa Korn focuses on higher education, particularly college controversies and campus activism. Her coverage also includes legal policy regulation and government announcements related to the higher education sector.
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James Payne was stumped. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based rare-book seller saw orders surge earlier this year for titles that even he considered to be obscure.
By: Melissa Korn, Gregory Zuckerman, Sam Goldfarb
The legendary hedge-fund investor said he was “kind of proud of using it.”
By: Gregory Zuckerman, Melissa Korn, Sam Goldfarb
Wall Street was stunned Monday when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was taken to task by one of his friends and mentors: legendary hedge-fund investor Stanley Druckenmiller.
By: Melissa Korn, Alexandra Bruell
Documents recently unsealed in a copyright case show employees weighing the cost of buying books to train early ChatGPT models.
CNN said it was pulled from a planned trip with President Trump for Saturday, the second time in less than a week that the news network was barred from a scheduled rotation in the TV press pool.
The network was scheduled to cover President Trump’s trip to Tennessee Saturday on behalf of a pool of TV news networks.
WASHINGTON—President Trump said Friday that he has given his new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia the option to leave her job after a rocky first week, including scrutiny on her résumé
By: Brian Schwartz, Marianne LeVine, Melissa Korn
WASHINGTON –Katie Zacharia is out as White House press secretary, according to people familiar with the matter, just a week after President Trump announced her appointment to the high-profile role.
By: Melissa Korn, Brian Schwartz
Trump says he told Katie Zacharia, who started earlier this week, ‘if I were you, I'd reconsider'
By: Kelly Cloonan, Melissa Korn
Acquisition talks have ended between MGM Resorts International and Barry Diller's People Incorporated—either for People to buy the casino company, or for the casino company to buy People, MGM told analysts Wednesday.
