Jeremy Kutner
I’m ProPublica’s general counsel, and I advise on all legal issues that affect the organization.
What I Do
As ProPublica’s general counsel, I advise on all legal issues that affect the organization, especially those that relate to protecting and defending our newsgathering and published work.
My Background
Before joining ProPublica as deputy general counsel in 2018, I practiced media law at Ballard Spahr, was a First Amendment fellow at The New York Times and served as a law clerk for a federal district court judge. I have litigated cases involving libel, freedom of information laws, subpoenas seeking testimony from reporters about sources, and access to sealed documents. I have also worked as a freelance journalist, with my writing from around the world appearing in outlets including the Times, New York Magazine, HuffPost and The Christian Science Monitor. I graduated from Yale Law School and Yale University.
To Hold the Government Accountable, We Need to Know What It’s Doing. That’s Why We’re Tracking PPP Data.
When Congress earmarked hundreds of billions of dollars for the Paycheck Protection Program, ProPublica believed the public had a right to know how the money was being spent. A federal judge agreed.