# Melissa Korn

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College Admissions Scandal Part One- Only One Trustworthy Rick

This week we are talking about the 2012-2018 College Admissions scandal. This is definitely a story of the rich and powerful families having all the advantages when it comes to college education. And a Man named Rick Singer who came along for the right price was willing to bend the rules and break‮…

College Admissions Scandal Part Two-Test Scores and Side Doors

We are back this week to continue the story of the College Admissions Scandal and Operation Varsity Blues! Getting into college is getting harder and more complicated. Many Ivy League Admissions rates have fallen as low as 3% which is nuts. Parents are looking for a guaranteed way for their kids t‮…

College Admissions Scandal Part Three- Secondhand Olympic Sand

We are back to talk about Rick Singer and the College Admissions scandal!  Last episode we talked about Rick Singer leaping over the line from unethical lies on applications to setting up a crazy system to cheat on the SAT and using his so-called Side door to bribe coaches for a guaranteed college‮…

College Admissions Scandal Part Four- A Parade of Privilege

We are back to talk about the College Admissions scandal.  Last episode we talked about the financial structures that may have helped Rick Singer perpetuate his nonsense .Then we talk about some of Rick's key collaborators at the different schools he was working with, as well as some of the famous‮…

How a $1.5 Billion Settlement Could Alter the Course of AI

Get more information about our first-ever live show here! Limited tickets left. Artificial intelligence company Anthropic agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit over the company's use of pirated books to train large-language models. WSJ’s Melissa Korn unpac‮…

Inside the Pentagon’s battle with the press

Justices heard arguments Wednesday over a case concerning a key provision of the Voting Rights Act related to congressional district maps in Louisiana. Lawrence Hurley with NBC News discusses how the pending decision could drastically change voting maps in the South. Journalists from major news ou‮…

The Secret Plan to Create Genetically Engineered Babies

A Silicon Valley startup, backed by high-profile investors, has looked into ways to evade U.S. bans and create a child born from a genetically edited embryo. The Wall Street Journal’s Katherine Long joins us to tell us more. Plus, a deep dive into rising costs of streaming—and expanding menu of st‮…

Patient Profile: Melissa Korn

Join us for a discussion with Soophia Naydenov and Melissa Korn, Deputy Bureau Chief of Media at the Wall Street Journal as she describes her experience with pulmonary embolism, post-spinal surgery.

600. “If We’re All in It for Ourselves, Who Are We?”

Tania Tetlow, a former federal prosecutor and now the president of Fordham University, thinks the modern campus could use a dose of old-fashioned values.  SOURCE: Tania Tetlow, president of Fordham University.  RESOURCES: "Not a Priest, Not a Man, but Ready to Run Fordham," by David Waldstein (‮…