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New York Times

Shou Zi Chew

TikTok’s Odds & An A.I. Suit for the Ages

News and notes on two of the most consequential legal battles that the entertainment industry has countenanced in years, both of which are nearing their conclusions right now.
Eriq Gardner • January 15, 2025
Eriq Gardner • January 8, 2025
Blake v. Baldoni, Round 2
Justin Baldoni
New combatants have joined the escalating battle between the movie star and her director, who’s upping the ante with a somewhat dubious $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times for journalistic malpractice.
Dylan Byers • October 26, 2024
Washington on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
jeff bezos
The decisions by Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong to spike endorsements of Kamala Harris have created an uproar inside The Washington Post and LA Times, respectively. Is this a genuine gripe, an assault on democracy, or simply the latest grievance consuming a legacy media industry mad as hell and unwilling to take it any longer?
will lewis
Dylan Byers • June 19, 2024
The Will Lewis Living Wake
News and notes on the developing and shape-shifting scandal engulfing The Washington Post—the newsroom revolt, the Bezos response, the Barr return, the Merida tidbit, and the coming denouement of Act I.
joe biden
Dylan Byers • April 26, 2024
Biden & His Times
News, notes, and fresh reporting on a deliciously perfect WHCD week micro-scandal—Politico’s mischievous, made-for-pot-stirring report on the alleged beef between the Times and the White House.
A.G. Sulzberger
Dylan Byers • March 7, 2024
Eighth Avenue Freeze-Out
The Times’ latest micro-scandal is, in many ways, as much about reporting challenges as it is a representation of its own evolving position in the economic landscape.
The layoffs at the LA Times, staggering as they were, belied the true extent of the damage the paper has endured under Patrick Soon-Shiong.
Dylan Byers • January 25, 2024
A Tale of Two City Papers
A talmudic reading of the agony and anxiety bubbling around the L.A. Times, and the cautious optimism brimming from Will Lewis’s post-layoffs Washington Post.
The New York Times covered the Trump tax return saga when the leaker, Chaz Littlejohn, was charged in September—but since that initial story, the paper has basically ignored their source and his predicament.
Eriq Gardner • January 22, 2024
A ‘Times’ Leak Saga for Our Times
Anticipating the legal denouement of a vexing legal soap opera featuring Trump, Ken Griffin, a modern Snowden, and The New York Times.
sam altman
Baratunde Thurston • January 15, 2024
A.I. & Its Times
On OpenAI eating the internet, the lawsuit heard ‘round the world, and a blueprint for detente with the media and entertainment business.
The New York Times is trying to sell a court on the notion that ChatGPT, the chatbot operated by Sam Altman’s OpenAI, is a plagiarist, mimicking their unique expression of facts.
Eriq Gardner • January 8, 2024
Will OpenAI Eat The New York Times?
Gaming out the motivations, the countermoves, and the likely endgame of the Times-OpenAI legal fracas.