World’s most powerful are suing media outlets before stories are even published, says editor

Editor-in-chief of Wall Street Journal says those with deep pockets launching legal challenges as a PR strategy Powerful figures are increasingly suing media outlets before they have even published a story, the editor of the Wall Street Journal has said. Emma Tucker , whose title is being sued by Donald Trump over its reporting of his relationship with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein , said the act of reporting itself was now under threat from the use of “lawfare” .