Round Up: General Counsel Sound Off, Take Jobs

Here’s what general counsel had to say the past week:

Journalism and free speech in the Trump Era

“Libel is back. If you haven’t heard it before, you’ll hear it from me now... I think that Trump is not responsible for that, obviously, but our president has contributed to the atmosphere with which people feel that they can bring crazy claims against the media and maybe win.”

-Lynn Oberlander, general counsel, Gizmodo Media, as told to a group of Columbia Journalism School students.

Russian meddling with the 2016 election

“We believe it is vitally important that government authorities have the ...