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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Fourteen publishers fought over Jerry Falade’s debut novel. After it sold, his agent pulled support over AI concerns.
The crime novel “Call Me, I'll Hide the Body” rose—and fell—with astonishing speed.
By: Melissa Korn
Jerry Falade said he wrote the debut novel himself and that claims against him were racially motivated.
By: Melissa Korn
The author accused of using artificial intelligence to craft the debut novel that landed him a multimillion-dollar book deal said he was innocent and that the claims against him were racially motivated.
Disney alleged the agency’s review of broadcast licenses violates free-speech protections.
Tensions between Disney and the Trump administration have been brewing for more than a year. Here's a timeline of the major moments:
Sellers are enjoying booming sales but fretting over whether irreplaceable books are being “sent to the guillotine” to train large language models.
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.
