Lawyers for Reporters connects local news outlets with free legal services (NiemanLab)

NeimanLab, May 18, 2021

Lawyers for Reporters connects local news outlets with free legal services

Pierce publish the story with the assistance of Lawyers for Reporters, a nonprofit collective that is a little over a year old and provides pro-bono legal support to local news outlets across the United States. They reviewed the story before publication and, Pierce said, helped ensure that she did “not accuse anyone of anything that they haven’t actually documented that they’ve done.” Lawyers for Reporters is a joint venture of First Look Media’s Press Freedom Defense Fund and the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar Association.

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