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New Normal: Navigating the News Environment During a Global Pandemic


Level: Intermediate
Runtime: 58 minutes
Recorded Date: April 10, 2020
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Agenda

  • Understanding the Current News Landscape
  • Engaging Key Stakeholders in Dynamic Communications Environments
  • Navigating Misinformation and Promoting Facts
Runtime: 58 minutes
Recorded: April 10, 2020
For NY - Difficulty Level: Both newly admitted and experienced attorneys

Description

This discussion will be led by Molly Levinson, CEO of crisis communications firm The Levinson Group, leader of the Crisis Management Group and Partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Michael Gottlieb, and reporters covering the law and Department of Justice for top-tier news organizations who will bring first-hand perspectives to the discussion. Topics will range from how the news landscape has been affected by the global pandemic, how to combat misinformation, staying connected with key stakeholder groups, and how to navigate virtual newsrooms.

This program was recorded on April 10th, 2020.

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Panelists

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Michael J. Gottlieb

Partner
Willkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP

Michael J. Gottlieb is a partner in the Litigation Department and a leader of the Crisis Management Group. Michael represents clients in enterprise-threatening events, including complex litigation at the trial and appellate level, government investigations and enforcement actions, and multidimensional crises involving cybersecurity and data privacy incidents, sanctions and anti-corruption issues, and other sensitive government-facing matters. Michael’s clients have included foreign governments, some of the most successful multinational companies in the world, technology startups, senior executives, and individuals.

Michael has delivered exceptional results for clients facing complex government investigations, including cybersecurity-related enforcement actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission and various state Attorneys General, securities enforcement actions brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and inquiries from a variety of congressional committees. He has represented clients facing novel challenges under U.S. and international sanctions regimes. He has successfully represented clients in litigation and arbitration, including complex commercial disputes, constitutional litigation, securities litigation, media and defamation matters, and cross-border disputes, and appeals in a number of appellate courts including the Supreme Court of the United States.

Michael has been recognized as a Rising Star by The National Law Journal, one of the Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 in Washington D.C., a Law360 MVP, a Cybersecurity Trailblazer, and a Litigator of the Week by American Lawyer.

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Katie Benner

Reporter
The New York Times

Katie Benner covers the Justice Department for The New York Times and she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for public service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues.

She has worked in The Times' San Francisco Bureau covering Apple, venture capital and startups. She helped steer the paper's coverage of the encryption fight between Apple and the FBI and investigated how tech employees chasing the Silicon Valley dream are short-changed by executives and investors. Most recently she's written about sexual harassment in the tech industry and the legal contracts used to keep that behavior a secret .

Before coming to The Times, Katie was a tech columnist at Bloomberg. She also spent nearly a decade at Fortune, where she covered financial markets, private equity and hedge funds. Her work includes profiles of Hank Paulson, Robert Shiller and Reid Hoffman as well as features on the 2008 financial crisis and financial fraud investigations.

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Erica Orden

Reporter
CNN

Erica Orden is a CNN reporter based in New York.

She covers federal law-enforcement and courts in New York, focusing on the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. At CNN, she has reported on high-profile stories including the prosecution of President Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen, the case against former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig, who was acquitted at trial; the sex-trafficking charges against multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein and the investigation of his alleged co-conspirators; the indictments of celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti; the prosecution of Rudy Giuliani's associates and the federal inquiry concerning Giuliani himself.


Prior to joining CNN in 2018, Orden was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for nearly nine years. At the Journal, she worked as part of the team covering the special counsel's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. She also covered beats including white-collar crime in New York, with a focus on insider trading and public-corruption cases. For four years, she was the paper's New York state politics reporter, covering the state legislature and the governor's office.

Orden began her career as a reporter at The New York Sun.

She received a bachelor's degree in political science from Barnard College and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. You can find her on Twitter: @eorden.

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Aruna Viswanatha

Reporter
The Wall Street Journal

Aruna Viswanatha is a correspondent that covers the Justice Department for The Wall Street Journal.

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Molly Levinson

CEO
The Levinson Group

Molly Levinson is CEO of The Levinson Group (TLG). Her decades of practice in media and public affairs includes experience on both sides of high-stakes news: developing hundreds of comprehensive communications campaigns to connect targeted audiences to compelling stories, and leading political coverage at major media outlets. Levinson leads communications efforts alongside legal teams advising Boards of Directors, Fortune 50 companies, well-known leaders and executives navigating complex social issues, legal disputes and transactions, and sensitive investigations. She regularly leads efforts to prepare individuals for high stakes media interviews, Government inquiries, and Congressional testimony. Levinson is an advisor to the U.S. Women’s National Team players association and an architect of the team’s equal pay effort. PR News called Levinson a “known problem solver” when the organization named her “Crisis Manager of the Year” in 2017.

An Emmy-award winning producer, Levinson was a journalist and news executive in the years before she launched a communications firm. She served as Political Director at both CNN and CBS, where she directed all political reporting and served as a primary liaison with national political parties, campaigns, local elected officials, Capitol Hill and the White House for every election from 2002 to 2012.

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