Editor’s note: The American Lawyer recently announced the first winners of the Tony Mauro Media Lawyer Award, established to honor attorneys who zealously advocate for freedom of the press.
Anyone who follows the media knows that a seismic shift is underway in the way Americans produce and consume journalism. The financial decline of the legacy media has been exhaustively documented—its causes, effects and larger social import—and the rise of independent, startup and nonprofit media over the same period has been similarly chronicled.
