- Sponsor
- College of Media, Frank Center for Leadership and Innovation in Media
- Registration
- Registration
- Contact
- Colleen King
- cck@illinois.edu
- Originating Calendar
- Frank Center for Leadership and Innovation in Media Events, College of Media
As press freedom and the First Amendment dominate news headlines, join the College of Media's Frank Center for a Q&A with David McCraw, lead newsroom lawyer for The New York Times. McCraw, a journalism alum (BS ’76), is author of Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (St. Martin’s, 2019), a first-person account of the legal battles that helped shape The Times’s coverage of Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, national security, and the rise of political partisanship in America.
McCraw is senior vice president and deputy general counsel at The New York Times. In addition to advising the newsroom on libel and other legal issues, McCraw is one of the nation’s most prolific litigators of Freedom of Information cases. On behalf of The Times, he has litigated dozens of federal FOIA cases, winning the disclosure of records on topics ranging from drone strikes on suspected terrorists, the prison death of Jeffrey Epstein, and the FBI’s purchase of now-banned phone surveillance software. In 2023, his media law litigation team at The Times won the Tony Mauro Media Lawyer Award from The American Lawyer magazine in recognition of the team’s work in protecting freedom of the press.
The conversation will be led by Colleen King, director of the Frank Center and clinical associate professor of journalism.
This online event is free and open to the public.