Tag Archives: New York Times

Trump Pays New York Times $400,000 In Failed Lawsuit

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump has paid almost $400,000 to The New York Times to cover the newspaper’s legal costs in his failed lawsuit against the publication and its reporters over the disclosure of his tax records in a 2018 article. A judge last month ordered the former president to pay up after his case was dismissed in May …

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Trump Ordered To Pay NYT $362,000 In Legal Fees

The Meidas Touch reports: The most litigious man in the history of the United States is now getting hit with blow after blow for his abuse of the judicial system. Today, he was ordered by a court to pay out over $362,000 in attorney’s fees to the New York Times and three of their reporters after one of his frivolous …

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NYT Sues OpenAI And Microsoft Over Copyright Issues

The New York Times reports: The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies. The Times is the first major American media organization to sue the companies, the creators of ChatGPT and other popular …

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Haberman And Swan To Write “Definitive” Trump Book

Axios reports: Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have signed a deal for the definitive book about Donald Trump’s final act in public life — whatever that final act is. The two have owned the Trump beat for years, with deep, wide sources in his orbit and throughout the Republican Party he has transformed. Simon and Schuster won a furious competition …

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Twitter/X Removes Gold Verification Badge For NYT

The Washington Post reports: The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has removed the gold “verified” badge from the New York Times’ account amid ongoing complaints about the news organization from X owner Elon Musk. The badge was the only symbol distinguishing the Times’ 55-million-follower account from impostors amid two major global conflicts in Israel and Ukraine. X …

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Analysis: Twitter/X Is Throttling Traffic To The NY Times

Semafor reports: X, Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users’ access to The New York Times. Since late July, engagement on X posts linking to the New York Times has dropped dramatically. The drop in shares and other engagement on tweets with Times links is abrupt, and is not reflected …

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Musk Yanks Blue Check From “Propaganda” NY Times

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk has made his first big blue check takedown, and his target is one of the most esteemed newspapers in the world. Twitter previously announced that on Saturday, it would begin “winding down” its “legacy verified program” by removing badges they deemed “legacy verified checkmarks.” The New York Times, which has 54.9 million followers on the social …

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Pompeo Bought His Way Onto NYT Bestsellers List

Forbes reports: Mike Pompeo’s political action committee shelled out $42,000 on books the day his memoir hit bookshelves, according to a filing submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Monday. “Never Give An Inch: Fighting for the America I Love” came out on Jan. 24. That same day, Champion American Values, a PAC that Pompeo chairs, paid Bulkbooks.com $42,000 for …

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1100+ NYT Union Members Walk Out Over Contract

Axios reports: More than 1,100 members of the New York Times union walked out on the job Thursday morning after more than a year and a half of stalled contract negotiations with The Times’ management. The walkout represents a breaking point between the two parties, which have been debating new contract terms since the guild’s last contract expired in March …

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New York Times Union Threatens To Strike Next Week

Axios reports: More than 1,000 members of the New York Times union, which includes hundreds of newsroom staffers, plan to walk out on the job if the company’s management doesn’t agree to the terms of a new contract by Dec. 8, the union announced Friday. The two parties have been at odds for more than a year and a half …

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Man With Sword And Axe Tries To Enter NYT Newsroom

New York City’s Fox affiliate reports: A man with an axe and a sword went into the lobby of the New York Times building on Thursday and asked to speak the political section, authorities said, then handed over his weapons and waited for emergency personnel when he was denied entry. When officers arrived, building security told them the man had …

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NYT Relaunches Its Vaunted “Needle” Forecasting Tool

The New York Times reports: The needle is an innovative forecasting tool that was created by The Times and debuted in 2016. It is intended to help you understand what the votes tallied so far suggest about possible winners in key contests, before the election is called. Watching the votes come in on election night can be confusing and hard …

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NYT: Wordle Brought Us Tens Of Millions New Users

Axios reports: The New York Times on Wednesday reported its second-best first quarter subscription growth since introducing a digital subscription in 2017, thanks in part to the acquisitions of The Athletic and Wordle in January. While a smaller investment than The Athletic, executives touted the success of Wordle, the viral online game that it paid “in the low seven figures” …

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Palin Seeks To Disqualify Judge In NY Times Lawsuit

Reuters reports: Sarah Palin called on the judge who oversaw her unsuccessful defamation case against the New York Times to disqualify himself, and said his series of errors tainted the outcome and required a new trial. In a late Tuesday night filing in federal court in Manhattan, lawyers for the former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor said U.S. …

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Jury Unanimously Sides With NYT In Palin Lawsuit

Forbes reports: The New York Times did not commit defamation when it incorrectly linked former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) to a 2011 mass shooting, a jury ruled Tuesday, bringing the ex-governor’s trial to an end—though the judge in the case already said he would dismiss it, meaning the verdict will only be used when the case is appealed. The …

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Judge To Boot Palin’s Suit Against New York Times

The Washington Post reports: A judge on Monday indicated he will dismiss Sarah Palin’s libel case against the New York Times, saying she had not met the legal standard showing that the newspaper acted with “actual malice” in publishing a 2017 editorial that included an inaccurate claim about her. Judge Jed S. Rakoff told the lawyers involved in the case …

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New York Times Buys Wordle For “Low Seven Figures”

The New York Times reports: In less than six months, Wordle has gone from a gift to a viral sensation, to being an official part of The New York Times portfolio. Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, created the game as a gift for his partner. It was released to the public in October, and it exploded in popularity …

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Pulitzer-Winning NYT Columnist To Run For OR Gov

Politico reports: Nicholas Kristof, the two-time Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist, is leaving the newspaper ahead of a likely run for Oregon governor. Kristof, who joined the Times in 1984 and has written a column there since 2001, has been on leave since June as he explored running in the Democratic primary to replace Oregon Gov. Kate Brown in 2022. …

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Trump’s DOJ Spied On Four New York Times Reporters

The New York Times reports: The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of four New York Times reporters spanning nearly four months in 2017 as part of a leak investigation, the Biden administration disclosed on Wednesday. It was the latest in a series of revelations about the Trump administration secretly obtaining reporters’ communications records in an effort to …

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Court Tosses Trump’s Defamation Suit Against NYT

Law & Crime reports: The New York Times won the dismissal of the lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump’s campaign over the op-ed “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo” on Tuesday, with a Manhattan judge finding the column was “nonactionable opinion” and the complaint failed to show actual malice. Published just before the release of the Mueller report—but after …

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