Jeff Kosseff

Jeff Kosseff is a media and privacy lawyer at Covington & Burling LLP and a former journalist. Before becoming an attorney, he was a Washington, D.C. reporter for The Oregonian, a major newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and recipient of the George Polk Award.[1]

Education

He graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and from Georgetown University Law Center with a juris doctor.[1]

Personal

He lives with his wife and daughter in the Washington area.[2]

Career

Kosseff represents media and technology companies in a wide range of First Amendment and privacy issues. Among his representative matters, he advocates for federal shield law for journalists on behalf of a coalition of more than 70 media organizations.[1][3] He frequently writes and speaks about the First Amendment and privacy law.[4][5][6][7][8] The Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has named Kosseff a Privacy by Design Ambassador.[9] Kosseff is an adjunct professor of communications law at American University's School of Communications,[10] and he serves on the board of directors of the Writer's Center in Bethesda and Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma in Washington, D.C.[11][12]

Before joining Covington, Kosseff clerked for Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.[1]

As a journalist, Kosseff worked for The Oregonian in the Washington, D.C. bureau from 2004 through 2008. Prior, he three years covering technology for The Oregonian.[13]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Covington & Burling -- Jeff Kosseff". Retrieved 2014-05-12.
  2. ↑ "Former Town Crier Interns Send Greetings from Washington, D.C.". Mackinac Island Town Crier.
  3. ↑ "AP Scandal Demonstrates Need for Federal Shield Law to Protect Reporters—Jeff Kosseff". LXBN.
  4. ↑ Kosseff, Jeff. "Defending Section 230: The Value of Intermediary Immunity". Journal of Technology, Law, & Policy.
  5. ↑ "Privacy Perspectives: Jeff Kosseff".
  6. ↑ Kosseff, Jeff. "Do We Have a Right to Online Anonymity?".
  7. ↑ "IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2014".
  8. ↑ Kosseff, Jeff. "Public or Private, Eliminating the Gertz Defamation Test". Journal of Law, Technology, & Policy.
  9. ↑ "Jeff Kosseff: Privacy by Design".
  10. ↑ "American University: Meet the Faculty".
  11. ↑ "The Writer's Center Board of Directors".
  12. ↑ "Jeff Kosseff: Covington & Burling".
  13. ↑ "Oregon and National Politics: About The Oregonian's Politics Team". oregon live. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  14. ↑ "2007 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism". The New York Times. 16 April 2007.
  15. ↑ http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2007-National-Reporting

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