Reuters / Jonathan Stempel
News Corp sued by Brave Software, a Google search engine rival →Brave “seeks to forestall a lawsuit by Rupert Murdoch’s company for when readers are directed to copyrighted articles from the Wall Street Journal and New York Post…Brave countered that it is ‘fair use’ to index website content, ‘which all search engine operators must do to exist.'”
The Wall Street Journal / Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg and Meghan Bobrowsky
She promised not to speak ill of Meta. Then she wrote a tell-all. Now, she can’t talk about it. →“The book, ‘Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,’ by Sarah Wynn-Williams, details CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to make inroads in China and levies harassment allegations against former and current executives…An arbitrator ruled Wednesday that Wynn-Williams had to temporarily stop making ‘disparaging, critical, or otherwise detrimental comments’ about the Facebook owner or its employees, after Meta alleged she had violated terms of her 2017 severance agreement, which included a nondisparagement clause.”
Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
The Washington Post / Jeremy Barr
With recent appointments, Fox News enters a new stage of Trump closeness →“Jesse Watters wasn’t afraid to admit it: He’s envious of all of his Fox News colleagues who have gotten plum jobs in the new Trump administration. ‘I’m also a little jealous because I feel like everybody is getting things — ambassadorships, award seats, Cabinet positions,’ he said…’I only asked for a statue. It doesn’t have to be life-sized.'”
Bloomberg / Benoit Berthelot
The Wall Street Journal / Nidhi Subbaraman
The for-profit scientific journal industry is seeing a wave of retractions →“In December, nearly every member of the editorial board of the pre-eminent Journal of Human Evolution walked out on Elsevier, the largest publisher of scientific papers, because of changes the staff said jeopardized the quality of the 53-year-old publication…Altogether, editors at nearly 40 journals have quit in the past decade over differences with their publishers, according to the website Retraction Watch.”
The New York Times / Ken Bensinger
As markets whipsaw, conservative media shrugs →“Nervous investors seeking news about the plunging markets on Monday afternoon would have been out of luck if they turned to the websites of The New York Post, The Daily Caller, One America News or The Blaze. Not one of those right-leaning outlets featured articles about the sell-off as the closing bell rang, cementing Wall Street’s steepest decline of the year.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Sewell Chan and Betsy Morais
Press Gazette / Bron Maher
The New York Times / Stephanie Saul
Yale scholar banned after AI news site accuses her of links to terrorism →“The article about Dr. Doutaghi was published on March 2 on Jewish Onliner. On its website and on Substack, Jewish Onliner says it is ’empowered by A.I. capabilities.’ It does not identify any reporters on its site. An effort to reach Jewish Onliner for comment elicited a response from ‘JO,’ which identified itself as an A.I. assistant developed by Jewish Onliner.”